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Total Stories: 25          Published: Wed, Jan 2, 2008



Annual Review: July to December 2007


July -

* Fermanagh's senior footballers' defeated Wexford but fell to Meath in the next round of the All Ireland qualifiers.

* Fermanagh's ladies lost to Cavan in Ulster Junior final.

* Tom Sturgeon carded 69 points to capture Enniskillen Captain's day prize.

* Golfing twin sensations Lisa and Leona Maguire were selected to play for Ireland in the European championships.

* Ballinamallard won the under 13 Brendan Keogh Youth League and Fermanagh man Neil Jardine took up a position as Treasurer of the Irish Football Association.

* Tempo won the ladies Junior title

* Enniskillen Gaels and St Patrick's Donagh won the under 14 division one and two titles respectively.

* Roy Carroll signed for his boyhood heroes Glasgow Rangers in July.

* Fermanagh athletes won seven medals at the All Ireland Track and Field Championships.

* Portora are successful at the Irish Rowing Championships.

* Gavin Noble defended his title at the Irish Triathlon Championships.

* Athlete, Caolan O'Brien was chosen as the Fermanagh Herald Sports Personality of the month.

August -

* Josh Elliott was back on top at the Irish Clubman Short Circuit Motor Cycling Racing Championships.

* Dessie McGlinchey, of Fivemiletown, came home from the Kayaking World Championships with a gold medal.

* Tempo won the Minor Championship and completed the double at that age group.

* Kinawley captured the Senior Intermediate Championship with victory over Ederney.

* Ciaran Dolan captures a British U.K title with his success in the Triple Jump.

* Lisbellaw retain their senior hurling championship with a two point success over arch rivals Lisnaskea.

* Wakejam 07 was a resounding success at the Broad Meadow as local Boarders got their chance to compete alongside the best that the world has to offer.

* The Fermanagh Herald started a new column, 'Tracking Gavin', where we keep the readers in touch with Enniskillen Triathlete's Gavin Noble's quest to make the Olympic Games last week.

* Fermanagh Lakers basketball team set up in Fermanagh.

* Tetra-athlete, Laura Hutton was chosen as the Fermanagh Herald Sports Personality of the Month.

September -

* Newtownbutler ended a ten year drought to lift the New York Cup in the Senior Championship beating Teemore in the final while Roslea Shamrocks captured the Junior Championship.

* Tempo under 16's followed in the footsteps of their minors by winning the Championship at their age level.

* The best in the business came to Lough Erne for a round of the World Cup in Water-skiing and thrilled the huge attendance at the Broad Meadow.

* Fermanagh fisherman, Patsy Treacy, was once again top of the pile when he captured the winners trophy at the VFI National Fly Fishing Championships.

* Six Fermanagh racers took to the track and came home with lots of silverware in the Clubmans motor cycling racing short circuit championships held in Co Down.

* Yvette Truesdale won three championship classes in National Dressage Championships held at Necarne.

* Sports Officer was employed at Erne Integrated in September in order to take sport in college onto the next level.

* Tempo collected the senior league division two trophy with victory over Brookeboro.

* The Fermanagh Herald Sports Personality of the month for September went to Karen Cromie for her rowing success.

October

* The late Bob Kerr was remembered with the first playing of the Robert Kerr memorial trophy at North Fermanagh Cricket Club with members of the Irish one day squad who took part in the cricket world cup present.

* Crumlin driver, Rodney White took victory in the System Signs Clubman Stages rally after a hard fought battle.

* Clogher Valley won the battle of the local rivals when they defeated Enniskillen by 16 points thanks to a powerful pack display.

* Malachy O'Rourke was finally appointed as Fermanagh senior football manager after a long drawn out process.

* Belcoo made a their own little bit of history when they won their first ever senior trophy as they defeated Teemore in the Senior Football League Division One decider.

* Kesh man, Kyle Lafferty scored the equalising goal in Northern Ireland's away draw against Sweden.

* Richard Cathcart and Martin Brady won the 2007 FM Contracts Down Rally.

* Denise Cassidy competes for Northern in the World Cup Darts event in Rosmalin in the Netherlands having secured her place as the six counties number one.

* Shane Goan and Barry Owens are both members of the Fermanagh team which won the Railway Cup. Defeating Munster in Croke Park.

* Three Portora boys, Mark Hood, Paul Galbraith and Ashley Finlay represented Ulster in Schools Cup Rugby.

* The Fermanagh Herald Sports Personality of the month for was special Olympics athlete Emma Jamison who won gold and Silver medals at the Special Olymics in Shanghai.

November

* Enniskillen Town United and Irvinestown Wanderers game in the Fermanagh and Western First Division is abandoned by the referee after he claimed to have been verbally abused by both camps.

* Andrew Little scored in Northern Ireland's under 19 draw with Cyprus in the European Championship.

* Newtownbutler bowed out of the Ulster Club after a spirited display against Derry Champions, Glenullen while in the Intermediate and Junior Ulster Club Championship Kinawley and Belnaleck also saw their hopes dashed.

* Ballinamallard swoop to collect both the under 15 and under 13 Brendan Keogh Youth Leagues.

* St Michael's Niall Cullen collected his second individual gold medal in the Provincial Cross Country Championships.

* GAA President, Nickey Brennan, launched the Fermanagh County Board's five year strategy which outlines the plans for the promotion of GAA in the county over the next half decade.

* Irvinestown dart thrower Denise Cassidy captured the Northern Ireland Ladies Open Singles title. She also picked up the mixed doubles title and the ladies double title.

* Niall McShea, the Monea driver, won the group N section of the World Rally Championship which was held in Tyrone, Fermanagh, Leitrim and Donegal. Amazingly the talented Fermanagh man finished 10th overall.

* Enniskillen Collegiate win the Ulster Schools Cup under 15 table tennis competition.

* The Fermanagh Herald Sports Personality of the Month for November was Sian Hurst after she represented and collected a silver medal for Ireland in the World Wakeboard Championships.

December

* Two St Michael's students, Stuart Connor and Ciaran Dolan got an international call up to the Irish Schools Under 16 athletics team.

* Popular Enniskillen man Gary Beckett moves from his beloved Derry City to Finn Harps.

* Chesley Wilson was in record breaking form upon her return from injury at the Ulster Short Course Championship.

* A motion from Enniskillen Gael's club was passed at County Convention which asks that every unit of the Association should debate the issue of government grant aid for Inter County Players.

* Susannah Hughes Jordon, qualified for the under 16 match play finals in Dublin during December.

* Fermanagh hurler, Paul McManus is selected for the Nickey Rackard Cup All Star team.

* The Western Zone Bowls team are crowned British Champions beating off some stiff opposition from the English champions in the final.

* Newtownbutler's, David McQuillan, won the inaugural 8 Ball Pool Championship.


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