JIM Magilton will have plenty to celebrate in the coming days. Not only did the 55-year-old become the Reds first manager since Jackie Hutton in 1979 to deliver Irish Cup success to Solitude, but his beloved Ipswich Town gained promotion back to the Premier League under the guidance of Fermanagh native Kieran McKenna. 

A league title in your first season at the club or bowing out of the game having landed the Irish Cup and laid the ghosts of 45 years to rest. There was no hesitation from Swanlinbar native Chris Curran, when asked which moment was the highlight of his glittering 11-year stint at Solitude. 

ROSSA'S eye for goal proved the difference as they got back to winning ways on home soil on Sunday at the expense of Loughgiel who lost their first game of the campaign.

TWO Ronan Hale goals in extra-time ended Cliftonville's 45-year wait for the Irish Cup as they sent their fans into dreamland at Windsor Park on Saturday.

A FORMER IRA Volunteer says a recently discovered photograph of him lying shot and wounded on the ground in a notorious British army barracks has transported him back nearly 50 years to that fateful day.