This year’s Sligo Rovers Summer Camps will run for eight weeks in total, starting on July 1^st and finishing on August 23^rd.

With Sligo Rovers renowned for providing one of the most affordable children’s camps in the region, the cost remains unchanged yet again at €60 per child.

Each child who participates will also receive an official Sligo Rovers training top (white), a free ticket to a Sligo Rovers home league game, a participation certificate and a picture with the Sligo Rovers first team.

Family discounts will apply yet again, with the cost of two children from the one family €100 per week (€20 saving) and €135 for three children from the one family per week (€45 saving).

The camp runs from 10.30am until 3pm daily. The optional Breakfast Club which sold out at the Easter Camps returns again, which opens from 8.30am each morning.

The cost of the Breakfast Club is an additional €25 per child. Each child that attends is provided with a choice of cereals, toast and juice each morning which is then followed by fully supervised outdoor activities.

Each participant is then walked down to the camp each morning by a coach. The Breakfast Club is limited to 25 children per week with pre booking strongly advised.

For more information or to make a booking, you can email shane@sligorovers.com or contact 071-9171212.

Alternatively, you can book your place online here: https://www.sligorovers.com/product-category/kids-camps/

The scoreline didn’t truly reflect the story of the game as Sligo Rovers were beaten by four goals to nil by Dundalk at Oriel Park.

A John Mountney hat-trick, supplemented by a Patrick Hoban spot-kick put an end to Rovers’ seven-game unbeaten run as the Lilywhites opened up a three point lead over the Hoops at the summit.

In search of their fifth league victory on the spin, Dundalk certainly helped matters when they hit the lead within the opening minute.

A quick throw-in from Dean Jarvis allowed Michael Duffy the time and space to whip a ball onto the head of Mountney, who finished with aplomb.

Buoyed by their early goal, the home side came at Rovers in waves, targeting their right side in particular.

Jordan Flores skimmed the side netting with an effort ten minutes in. While the same man saw his glancing header fly past Ed McGinty’s post from another Duffy cross.

Rovers had their first sight at goal on 25 minutes.

Daryl Fordyce and David Cawley combining in front of the Dundalk area as the latter slipped the ball through to Romeo Parkes.

The Jamaican’s effort from the angle cutting across the face of the goal and just beyond Gary Rogers’ back post.

Duffy was at it again just past the half hour when he ventured inside from his wide position.

McGinty needing to fist the winger’s shot away after Vinny Perth’s side burrowed their way through the Sligo defence.

Rovers then startled the champions somewhat, starting the second half on the front foot.

Rogers was almost caught out by a clever set piece from Cawley, but all of Sligo’s good work was undone on the hour.

Kyle Callan-McFadden somewhat unfortunate to concede the penalty when he dived in front of a Hoban shot.

Hoban missed a penalty on the opening night against the same goalkeeper, but he made no mistake this time as he sent McGinty the wrong way for goal number 11 of the year.

The league leaders made it three on 68 when Duffy delivered another super ball onto the head of Mountney, who placed the ball beyond McGinty for his brace.

Mountney had his hat-trick on 80.

Referee Rob Rogers adjudged McFadden to have upended a Hoban in the area. Mountney firing past McGinty from 12 yards.

Sligo Rovers visit Dundalk on Friday night in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division in Oriel Park.

The Bit O’ Red won 2-1 against Bohemians last week and are unbeaten against Dundalk with a 1-1 draw and 2-1 win so far. 

In team news, Dante Leverock (concussion) is out and travel to meet up with Bermuda ahead of the Gold Cup in the coming days.

Regan Donelon and Johnny Dunleavy are doubtful with muscle strains. Niall Morahan returns. 

Liam Buckley said: “Dundalk is a very hard game for every side in the league, especially away from home. Fight and desire has been the backbone of what we’ve done so far and in fairness to the lads they’ve worked extremely hard. 

“Whether we are under the radar is something I don’t consider but what is happening is we are fundamentally getting better and improving. We are halfway through the season but it remains a work in progress because we are trying to gel it together. By no means do we get carried away because you’re 90 minutes away from a defeat. We have to maintain all the attributes I’ve spoken about. 

“We got a draw earlier in the season. Dundalk have a good squad of players, their ambition would be to the win. From our end we go there looking give a good account of ourselves and to get a result.”

Sligo Rovers can today announce the upcoming release of The Showgrounds – a new beer produced in conjunction with The White Hag Brewery that will generate funds for the Bit O’ Red.

The project will see €1 donated to Sligo Rovers from every pint purchased thanks to a unique agreement between the club, White Hag and publicans in County Sligo.

The beer is a traditional helles lager, similar in style to a modern lager.

A total of 13 pubs will sell The Showgrounds – named after the home of Sligo Rovers.

The White Hag is an award-winning craft brewery from Sligo and they believe the Bit O’ Red are brewing something special under Liam Buckley.

Based in Ballymote, The White Hag have grown considerably since launch five years ago and now employ 10 people in a rapidly expanding local business, exporting to eight markets from their South Sligo base.

The agreement between White Hag and publicans will see Rovers profit €1 from each pint. The cost of a pint is €4.70.

The Showgrounds beer was brewed and packaged specially in recent days for release this Friday in the following bars:

• Caheny’s
• Mooney’s
• O’Neill’s
• Foley’s
• Earley’s
• Connolly’s
• The Swagman 
• Lillie’s 
• The Crozon Inn 
• The Snug 
• The Dunes, Strandhill
• Owenmore Inn, Collooney
• Salley Gardens, Ballisodare

Sligo Rovers chairman Martin Heraghty said: “The club hope our supporters buy into this unique fundraising venture and support a product which we think you will thoroughly enjoy. It is something aimed at older fans of the club during the summer. The money generated will be put towards ground works.

“The White Hag are a popular local business who are very keen to maintain their connection with Sligo. Their business is a great strength for the community of Ballymote and indeed County Sligo.

“We’d like to thank White Hag as we build our new partnership and hope this is a huge success.”

Bob Coggins of The White Hag said: “As a pillar of the Sligo sporting and cultural community, the Bit O’ Red are an icon for us and we’re thrilled to be able to create a product that we can turn into a fundraising campaign for The Showgrounds.

“This initiative allows the wider Sligo community to show their support the club by sampling our collaboration, and seeing some of their hard earned cash going straight to the Rovers development fund.

“The lager is a very accessible style that any beer drinker will appreciate. We’re producing the beer at a cost to allow for the maximum fundraising possible for a very worthwhile cause that’s brilliant for Sligo. We hope everyone gets a chance to enjoy it.”

Sligo Rovers will host a Family Fun event on Saturday 8 June in The Showgrounds before our game against St Patrick’s Athletic.

There is FREE Admission for all All Kids Under 12 if accompanied by a paying Adult.

Gates Open will open at the earlier time of 6pm.

All children will receive a free ice-cream if they arrive before 6.30pm

There is free face-painting for all children.

There is Live Music from 7 – 7.45pm

Benny the Bull is back so make sure to take your photo with Benny.

There is a free training session from 6-7pm for children on the astro pitch.

You must pre-register on 071 – 9171212 to book a place.

There will be some photo cut out boards in the ground where you can get your photo taken.

Free Admission passes can be got from your local schools or from the office from next Tuesday onwards.

LiveTiles, leaders in intelligent workspace solutions, will be the match sponsor for the home game against Saint Patrick’s Athletic on Saturday 8 June, which kicks off at 7.45pm in the Showgrounds.

“We opened our doors in Sligo just 12 months ago and are constantly thankful for the amazing support and goodwill we get ourselves from the people in Sligo and right across the northwest” says Elaine Murphy, General Manager of LiveTiles.

“As a global software company our European headquarters is now established in Sligo from where we are efficiently running a software development team plus sales, marketing and IT global support.” says Murphy.

€13,000 has been generated so far in the Sligo Rovers Annual Draw.

There is €5,000 to be won among a host of prizes. 6,400 tickets were sold last year in the most successful staging of the draw since it began.

Tickets are priced €10 and are available online here , home games and from members of our committee.

The prizes:

1st prize: €5,000

2nd prize: One Night B&B for two people at the 5 Star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin

3rd prize: Two tickets for Rod Stewart for his 4th December Concert plus One Night B&B and Evening Meal in The Croke Park Hotel.

Buy tickets here

4th prize: One Night B&B and Evening Meal for two people at the Titanic Hotel in Belfast

5th prize: One Night B&B for two people in Hotel Westport, Co Mayo

6th prize: €200 voucher for 4 Star Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, Co Clare

7th prize: €150 Gift Voucher for The Cat and The Moon

8th prize: Sligo Rovers season ticket for 2020

9th prize: 2 Premier Level Tickets for the Republic of Ireland versus Switzerland on 5th September in Aviva Stadium Euro 2020 qualifer

10th prize: Signed Sligo Rovers jersey

The draw takes place on Monday 1st July

This year’s Sligo Rovers Summer Camps will run for eight weeks in total, starting on July 1^st and finishing on August 23^rd.

With Sligo Rovers renowned for providing one of the most affordable children’s camps in the region, the cost remains unchanged yet again at €60 per child.

Each child who participates will also receive an official Sligo Rovers training top (white), a free ticket to a Sligo Rovers home league game, a participation certificate and a picture with the Sligo Rovers first team.

Family discounts will apply yet again, with the cost of two children from the one family €100 per week (€20 saving) and €135 for three children from the one family per week (€45 saving).

The camp runs from 10.30am until 3pm daily. The optional Breakfast Club which sold out at the Easter Camps returns again, which opens from 8.30am each morning.

The cost of the Breakfast Club is an additional €25 per child. Each child that attends is provided with a choice of cereals, toast and juice each morning which is then followed by fully supervised outdoor activities.

Each participant is then walked down to the camp each morning by a coach. The Breakfast Club is limited to 25 children per week with pre booking strongly advised.

For more information or to make a booking, you can email administrator@sligorovers.com or contact 071-9171212.

Alternatively, you can book your place online here: https://www.sligorovers.com/product-category/kids-camps/

Romeo Parkes’ 89th minute winner saw Sligo Rovers stretch their unbeaten run to seven as they stunned ten man Bohemians at Dalymount Park.

Parkes had given Rovers the lead early in the second half but Bohs bounced back shortly after, courtesy of Conor Levingston.

Keith Long’s side were well in charge for the majority of the second period, despite losing Derek Pender to a red card.

But Rovers pulled through with a late smash and grab strike through the in form Parkes with one minute left.

Neither side managed to worry the opposition goalkeeper in a first half which saw 18 minutes injury time added on.

Corcoran pulled up short at the edge of the Sligo six-yard-box after nine minutes, resulting in five minutes treatment before the striker was stretchered off.

Corcoran unable to continue having picked up what looked like an ankle injury.

The medical staff from both camps were in attendance again on the quarter hour.

Sligo centre half Dante Leverock collided with his goalkeeper Ed McGinty after the Bermudan struggled to deal with a ball forward from the Bohs defence.

Substitute Ryan Swan then went to ground as he tried to round a dazed McGinty, but referee Neil Doyle waved play on.

The official then called a halt to play in order for Leverock to be treated.

After a 12 minute break, the game’s first shot on target came on 35 minutes.

Danny Mandroiu, who scored a delicious free-kick against St Patrick’s Athletic recently, unable to repeat the trick as McGinty was relatively comfortable in dealing with his curled effort from 30 yards.

Bohs net minder James Talbot dived on half chances for both Ronan Murray and Romeo Parkes.

While McGinty saw off long-rangers from both Mandroiu and Conor Levingston late on in the first period which lasted 64 minutes.

The second half was just three minutes old when Liam Buckley’s charges hit the lead.

Skipper David Cawley finding Parkes in space on the right. The Jamaican international taking time to steady himself before knocking the ball off the inside of Talbot’s far post for his fifth of the year.

The lead lasted barely five minutes.

The sheer power of Levingston’s drive from the edge of the area allowing the ball burrow under the grasp of McGinty and beyond the rookie ‘keeper.

Lifted by their equaliser, the Dubliners were almost ahead on the hour.

Both Levingston and Swan were just inches away from getting a touch on Darragh Leahy’s ball to the back post as Sligo had to weather the Gypsy storm.

Bohs were then reduced to ten on 69 minutes when captain Pender was dismissed following a high challenge on Lewis Banks in front of the away dugout.

Keith Long’s charges looked the more likely to win the game as they piled on the pressure, but there was to be a sting in the Rovers tail.

Parkes started the move deep in his own half by pushing possession into the path of Ronan Coughlan, who on the counter, returned the gesture with a superb ball over the top for Parkes.

The striker taking a deft touch to control the ball before twice dummying both Talbot and the last Bohs defender and firing home for his brace.

Bohemians: James Talbot; Derek Pender, Aaron Barry, Darragh Leahy; Conor Levingston, Robbie McCourt (Scott Allardice 80); Keith Ward, Danny Mandroiu, Kevin Devaney (Luke Wade-Slater 52); Dinny Corcoran (Ryan Swan 13).

Sligo Rovers: Ed McGinty; Johnny Dunleavy (Regan Donelon 45+2) (Kris Twardek 63), Dante Leverock (Kyle Callan-McFadden 27), John Mahon, Lewis Banks; Sam Warde; David Cawley, Daryl Fordyce; Ronan Murray; Ronan Coughlan, Romeo Parkes.

Referee: Neil Doyle.

Attendance: 2,353

Sligo Rovers travel to Dublin on Friday night to take on Bohemians in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division, kick-off 7:45pm.

The Bit O’ Red drew 0-0 against Derry City and now sit seventh in the table going into this meeting.

Bohs won 2-0 in the first meeting of the teams in The Showgrounds.

Rovers welcome back Johnny Dunleavy from a hamstring problem. Niall Morahan is out with a calf strain.

There are no other injury complaints

Liam Buckley said: “In Waterford it was such an open game where a draw was probably fair in the end and then last week it was extremely tight and again that outcome was the right one.

“We have to keep on persevering to get results. You saw again during the week some really nip and tuck matches that could have gone either way. It’s just the way the league is.

“We have to go graft in Dalymount to try to get a result because that’s the case in every game you play.

“Bohs will be feel hard done by with the concession of such a late penalty so I have no doubt they’ll be looking to react to that.

“From our end, we’ve had a good week of training and we have a couple of decisions to make for the team selection.

“Niall Morahan is out which is unfortunate as he has made a good contribution this year. He has that ability to play in midfield or at right-back.

“I think he only turns 19 before the end of the month so the progress he has made has been excellent and he’ll be back involved soon I’m sure.

“We’ve got a couple of tough away matches coming up, starting on Friday but we’ll go there looking to give a good account of ourselves.”