The Final Whistle

The Final Whistle came live from EJ Menswear, Grattan Street, Sligo on the eve of the new basketball Super League season for EJ Sligo All-Stars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bundoran gets ready to host surfing’s junior European Championships next week. We’ve been been to the Peak this week to catch a few waves - figuratively speaking - with the man whose idea it was to bring the championships to Bundoran - Gavin McCrea. Sligo Rovers will be relegated this weekend, if they lose - and if Drogheda and Waterford don’t. We  assess what’s gone wrong with Gavin Dykes. Monday night's game against Galway Utd marked a new departure in the press box - as Rovers provided their first audio descriptive commentary service for supporters who are blind or visually impaired. We talk to the two commentaors who were behind the microphones.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An episode from the St Mary's at 50 podcast series, celebrating 50 years of St Mary's GAA & LGFA club in Sligo. This episode was recorded in front of a clubhouse audience at Kent Park, as part of National Heritage Week. The guests were: John Kent, Tommy Breheny, David Cummins and TJ Kilgallon, as the four looked back on the 1990s and the club's return to the top table of senior championship football.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's boxing all the way on this week's edition of 'The Final Whistle'. First - we pay a visit to the home of Paddy Doherty in Donegal - the last Irish boxer to fight at Croke Park on the Muhammad Ali-Al 'Blue' Lewis card at Croke Park in July 1972. Then - as the Katie Taylor fight at Croker looms, we call to the Gateway Boxing Club in Sligo - a club which has been championing women's boxing since its inception in 2018.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sligo Rovers are looking to change the way the club is organised an run. Club Chairman Tommy Higgins talks us through what they’re proposing. It's golf glory for Co Sligo’s Young Guns in the Fred Daly Cup. It's a make-or-break weekend for north Leitrim hopes in the Leitrim club championships Plus - Westlife’s Shane Filan on the return of Relay For Life Sligo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.