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Donegal trio confirmed on NI team for Commonwealth Games

written by Chris McNulty January 3, 2018
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Three Donegal athletes have been selected as part of the Northern Ireland team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Finn Valley AC athletes Sommer Lecky and Dempsey McGuigan have been named as has Raphoe badminton player Rachael Darragh.

The Commonwealth Games take place at Gold Coast, Australia from April 4-15.

High jumper Lecky was a gold medallist at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games. The Castlederg teen, who won the Irish senior title early last year, leapt to 1.82 metres to scoop gold in the Bahamas.

Hammer thrower McGuigan was sixth in the European Team Championships in Finland last June. His personal best for the event is 70.55m, a Donegal senior record.

Darragh, a niece of three-time Olympic badminton player Chloe Magee, will go in a three-person badminton team with Ciaran Chambers and Sinead Chambers.

Darragh reached the quarter-finals of the ladies singles competition in Latvia, Slovakia and Lithuania in 2017 and she was a semi-finalist in the Welsh International.

Donegal trio confirmed on NI team for Commonwealth Games was last modified: January 3rd, 2018 by Chris McNulty
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Chris McNulty

Author of 'Boxing In Donegal: A History (2021)' - the definitive history of the sport in County Donegal - and 'Relentless: A Race Through Time', the 2019 memoir of former Irish Athletics Team Manager Patsy McGonagle. From St Johnston and now based in Letterkenny, Chris was a nominee for NUJ Sports Journalist of the Year in 2010. Honoured by the Donegal Boxing Board in 2016 for his coverage on the sport.

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