Adam McKendry

Northern Ireland star Ross McCausland has capped his breakthrough season at Rangers by winning the club’s Young Player of the Year award at their end of season awards do.

The news will come as no surprise to anyone but the Belfast Giants have officially confirmed that the organisation’s most successful head coach Adam Keefe will be back behind the bench for an eighth season in charge in the 2024-25 campaign.

It’s 1975. Dick Milliken has just been part of the British Lions tour to South Africa a year prior — the famous ‘Invincibles’ — and had firmly established himself in Ireland’s centre pairing alongside fellow Ulsterman Mike Gibson.

It’s time to find out who will take the final European place on offer from the Sports Direct Premiership as Carrick Rangers travel to Crusaders and Glentoran host Coleraine in the Semi-Finals of the Play-Offs.

The NI Football League (NIFL) have announced a ‘ground-breaking’ television deal with DAZN for coverage of the Sports Direct Women’s Premiership for the next three years.

It’s a busy time in Alexander Clarke’s life, what with preparing for running the Belfast Marathon on Sunday, finishing off his final year of studying medicine at Queen’s University and putting the final touches to his upcoming wedding to fiancée Amy.

Glentoran manager Declan Devine has laid out a brutal assessment of his side after their dismal season was ended in similar fashion by Coleraine in their European Play-Off Semi-Final on Wednesday night.

As far as statements go, the Belfast Giants have made a significant one in the arms race ahead of the new season by bringing back former Elite League Player of the Year J.J. Piccinich to the SSE Arena.

Fifty years is a long time by any metric, be it in life or sport. Times change, opinions shift and approaches towards things differ.

British Lions legend Willie John McBride believes Ulster cannot complain about their lack of representation in the Ireland squad while the national side keeps winning.