Category: Sport

A team of young Island footballers enjoyed a dream trip to Wembley thanks to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Eleven youngsters from Union Mills FC’s under-9s team travelled to London this month to take part in the National Football Festival, with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company providing the players and their [...]

The ice skating school run at the Sure Summer skate rink by ‘Dancing On Ice’ coach and Olympic ice skater Karen Barber has been a great success, and Sure plan to run more skating classes when the rink returns in the winter. This summer’s courses were open to anyone between the ages of 7 and [...]

THE island is set for a superb day of golf on Thursday 5 August. A prestigious event in the Ramsey Golf Club’s calendar, the Collins Stewart Cup has already attracted 139 players including top golfers from clubs across the island. The open competition has been played since the 1890s and attracts a wide range of [...]

Organisers of the Isle of Man Special Olympics have thanked Manx Telecom for providing 30 organisers of visiting teams with mobile phone SIM packs and top up vouchers. The event took place in July with teams from the Isle of Man, Great Britain, Ireland, Malta, Gibraltar and Austria competing in six different sports. Barry Dulson, [...]

This year’s Manx Grand Prix has an excellent line-up of motor biking talent, including Ryan Farquhar, Michael Dunlop and Guy Martin.  Competition is set to be tight, especially in the Senior Post Classic class in which all three will be competing, and organisers anticipate record lap times. However, the Grand Prix can only happen if [...]

Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 mascot Tosha visited Friends Provident International to meet staff at the company’s office in Castletown. Friends Provident International is one of the ten Partner organisations sponsoring the Games and has set up a committee to promote the company’s support for the event and encourage volunteers to sign up to help out [...]

Conister Bank recently presented local Karting competitor, Chris Mealin, with sponsorship of £500 towards his 2010 Kart Racing championship endeavour. Sixteen year old Chris, a competitor in the Senior Honda class of the Isle of Man Kart Racing Association, has already achieved success within the championship finishing first during round eight and in the top [...]

Gareth Morris of Castletown Cricket Club has been named ‘Standard Bank Player of the Month’ for June. His performance during the judging period saw him achieve 500 runs, including three centuries in the Standard Bank Premiership and one in the Lancashire Cup in consecutive weekend fixtures. Nominations for June were also made for Peter Lewis, [...]

Manx Telecom will be helping fans keep up to date with news about the European Cricket Council (ECC) tournament which the Island is hosting in July. The tournament is sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and is an under-17s competition for ECC division two teams being played at four locations across the Island – [...]

Moore Stephens Isle of Man, leading providers of multi-sector accountancy, consultancy and wealth management services has donated £1,000 to the Douglas Bay Yacht Club as sponsorship of its 130th annual Regatta which took place over the 26th and 27th June. David Shadwell, partner at Moore Stephens Isle of Man, was among the spectators at the [...]