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The Courier
4 days ago
- Sport
- The Courier
Dundee's Premier Sports Cup fixtures revealed as Dee begin new campaign with home clash
Dundee will kick off the 2025/26 season at home to Championship Airdrieonians. The Diamonds have been regular opponents for the Dark Blues in recent seasons. Last term saw the Dee knock Airdrie out of both cup competitions with heavy Dens Park victories. They won 6-1 in the Premier Sports Cup and 4-0 in the Scottish Cup at the last 16 stage of both tournaments. The previous season saw Rhys McCabe's men win 1-0 at the Excelsior Stadium in the League Cup group stage. As well as Airdrieonians at home, Dundee will face Montrose at Dens Park in their final group stage fixture. Sandwiched between are two away days at League One Alloa Athletic and Lowland League outfit Bonnyrigg Rose. Bonnyrigg Rose v Alloa Athletic (3.00pm) Dundee v Airdrieonians (3.00pm) Airdrieonians v Bonnyrigg Rose (7.45pm) Alloa Athletic v Montrose (7.45pm) Alloa Athletic v Dundee (3.00pm) Montrose v Bonnyrigg Rose (3.00pm) Bonnyrigg Rose v Dundee (7.45pm) Montrose v Airdrieonians (7.45pm) Airdrieonians v Alloa Athletic (3.00pm) Dundee v Montrose (3.00pm)
The Courier
6 days ago
- Sport
- The Courier
Who will Dundee FC face in the Premier Sports Cup group stage?
Dundee will kick off the 2025/26 season with a kind draw in the Premier Sports Cup group stage. The 2024/25 campaign is barely over and the Dark Blues are yet to find a replacement for the sacked Tony Docherty. Preparations for the new season are already under way, however, and the challenge to begin the new manager's reign has been revealed after the Premier Sports Cup group stage draw. Last season Dundee were knocked out at the quarter-final stage with defeat at Rangers after setting a goalscoring record in the group stage. The Dark Blues have reached the last eight in three of the last four campaigns but haven't gone beyond that stage since 2003/04. Kicking off in July, top seeds Dundee will face Airdrieonians, Alloa Athletic, Montrose and Bonnyrigg Rose in Group C. The Dark Blues have met Championship Airdrie in the League Cup in each of the last two seasons, winning 6-1 in the last 16 last term. They haven't faced League One Alloa in the competition since 1999 when Willie Falconer and James Grady goals earned a 3-1 win while they could line up against former Dee Craig Wighton at third-tier Montrose. Last season saw the Dee kick off 2024/25 at recently-relegated Bonnyrigg Rose, winning 7-1. The 2025/26 Premier Sports Cup will kick off on the weekend of July 12/13, with further group stage matchdays on July 15/16, July 19/20, July 22/23 and July 26/27.
Irish Times
6 days ago
- Business
- Irish Times
RTÉ appearance at Oireachtas committee a drab sequel to firework show of two years ago starring Ryan Tubridy
Two years on from the RTÉ scandal that became the greatest show on earth, a cast of 11 Montrose managers returned to Leinster House to meet the Oireachtas media committee . After Ryan Tubridy's spectacular flame-out, this sequel was never going to match the original version. TDs and senators concentrated their questions on a new television marketing campaign for the news division, which is still in production, and on a €3.6 million writedown over a partly abandoned IT project. The marketing campaign has angered some RTÉ staff, not least because actors were hired as extras to film marketing shots about news production. Director general Kevin Bakhurst , who said his job was to 'clean out the stables', complained of 'inaccurate' reporting on this issue. On the suggestion special props were used to improve how the studio looked, he said that was nothing more than two plants being moved from elsewhere in the building. READ MORE [ Ryan Tubridy has not repaid RTÉ €150,000 he received for two promotional events that did not happen, Bakhurst says Opens in new window ] Extras were engaged because the time required for filming would take journalists from their work, RTÉ said. When director of news and current affairs Deirdre McCarthy noted the extras were obscured in the film anyway, one committee member said it seemed actors were paid not to act. The cost of the marketing production thus far was €77,000 plus VAT, with 'five or six' people in Brussels this week for additional filming. Committee chairman Alan Kelly said most observers would consider it 'bananas' for an organisation such as RTÉ to engage an external crew to shoot a marketing film. Bakhurst, however, said RTÉ crews were busy on their own work. On the IT writedown, he accepted the deficit was 'significant'. Still, the political magnitude of the issue seems to have been lost on RTÉ management until a February submission to Minister for Arts and Media Patrick O'Donovan after the botched Arts Council IT project . RTÉ's IT loss cost more than the €2.2 million failure of Toy Show The Musical, so why weren't top executives seized of the matter? Bakhurst said he took the reins only in 2023 and that the impairment was dealt with on the watch of previous finance chiefs. Nothing was hidden, he insisted. Advisory body NewERA, which provides advice to Government on its shareholdings in state companies, had itself sought clarification on the issue. Although RTÉ argued the impairments were properly set out in its accounts, accounting rules are a world away from the heat of an Oireachtas committee. Kelly, the chairman, asked why O'Donovan's department never raised the matter when RTÉ was under intense political scrutiny two years ago. 'No red flag was raised with the department in relation to it by RTÉ or by NewERA – and we didn't raise a red flag in relation to it,' Feargal Ó Coigligh, department secretary general, said. 'I think things would be very different today.' All of this flows from ructions over Tubridy, the man long gone from RTÉ but whose 'ghost' lingers. Bakhurst said Tubridy had not returned €150,000 from the fateful Renault deal that set off the 2023 avalanche. RTÉ had 'no legal basis' to compel repayment, but 'we'd like him to'. Asked whether he expects the former Late Late Show host to take a legal action over the affair, Bakhurst did not expect so, 'but you never know'. Tubridy's agent, Noel Kelly , was mentioned only briefly, but there was no information on the extent of any current dealings of the latter with other RTÉ stars. Two presenters are still paid more than Bakhurst's €250,000 salary under legacy arrangements, but no one will receive more than him in future. After fireworks two summers ago over rampant junketeering and huge severance pay, this was not quite the stuff of high drama.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Montrose Regional Health hires new spine surgeon
MONTROSE, Colo. (KREX) – Montrose Regional Health has hired a new spine surgeon, Dr. Rasheed Abiola. With this addition, surrounding areas will soon have the ability to get advanced spinal care much closer to home. Dr. Abiola will officially join the MRH Spine and Pain Center on June 9. His arrival brings nine years of spine surgery experience, with expertise in minimally invasive, robotic, motion-preserving and complex spine surgeries. 'Dr. Abiola's arrival at Montrose Regional Health is a huge milestone for our Spine and Pain Center,' said Jeff Mengenhausen, CEO of Montrose Regional Health. 'No one should have to leave their community to get world-class spine and pain care. With Dr. Abiola and our exceptional team, patients can now access that expertise right here in Montrose.' Dr. Abiola studied at The Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University and is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (ABOS). Before coming to MRH, he was practicing at Mendelson Kornblum Orthopedics at Synergy Health Partners in Troy, Michigan, as an orthopedic spine surgeon. 'The majority of spine conditions can be treated without surgery,' Dr. Abiola said. 'My goal is to thoroughly explore all non-surgical options and only consider surgery when those options have been fully exhausted.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
How two families were linked by a Scottish war horse
Two families linked by a heroic Scottish horse that served in some of the bloodiest battles of World War One have met for the first time. When the conflict started in 1914, Vic was a farm horse owned by the McGregor family near Montrose. She was specially chosen to serve with Cpt Alexander Wallace in France – and was the only horse from the area to return from the war. Vic was later briefly reunited with Cpt Wallace, who arranged for her to return to Angus and live out the rest of her life at the McGregors' farm. More than 100 years later, the soldier's descendants have travelled from the US to meet the McGregors and hand over Cpt Wallace's war diaries to the Montrose Air Station Museum. Cpt Wallace's grandson John said it was "totally amazing" to connect with David and Jean McGregor, the great-grandson and granddaughter of Vic's original owner William McGregor. He said: "I can't really describe how fun and grateful and heartfelt it was that another family grew up with the story of Vic, unaware of us for 100 years. "I just get chills telling the story. "It's amazing, this story about Vic being carried along by two different families, completely unaware of each other." Cpt Wallace's father, who was the vet for Arbroath, had specifically obtained Vic for the young officer in August 1914, only days after the war began. Vic was attached to Cpt Wallace's unit, the Forfarshire Battery of the Royal Field Artillery (RFA). She arrived in France after 10 months of training and a bout of pneumonia. A 1919 article in the Dundee Courier, listed the pair's "exciting adventures and miraculous escapes". It said: "At Festubert in 1915, when the territorial battalions whacked the Prussian Guards, Vic was in the fray. "On the Somme in 1916 she again distinguished herself. "At the taking of Passchendaele in 1917 she was again with the Battery, and in the spring of last year when the Germans by a great drive threatened Amiens, Vic with her battery, put up a gallant fight." The pair were parted at the end of the war. Vic was sent back to Britain, avoiding the fate of the many war horses who were shot following their service. Cpt Wallace discovered Vic was to be auctioned in London, so he wired his brother from France, asking him to buy her back so she could be returned to the McGregors at her home farm in Angus. Despite fierce competition, he secured Vic with a winning bid of 45 guineas, almost £1,400 in today's money. In an amazing coincidence, Cpt Wallace was able to see Vic again before he emigrated to the US. He had arrived at King's Cross station on short leave and spotted her as she was being readied to board the train to Arbroath, en route to her home farm. The Dundee Courier reported: "At the greeting "Hullo, Vic, old girl!" the mare pricked up her ears and seemed as delighted at meeting her old friend as he was at securing his faithful and making sure that she would have a good home for the rest of her days." Cpt Wallace received the Military Cross in the 1919 New Year Honours list for his bravery during the conflict, before emigrating to America. He died in 1977. Vic returned to the McGregors and her home farm, where she went on to have a number of foals and won competitions. David McGregor said his family had discovered pictures of Vic and correspondence between William McGregor and Cpt Wallace in his late aunt's house. He added: "There was an article in the Courier in 2021 looking for information on the horse and that's where we read about it. "We thought, this has to be the same horse." Cpt Wallace's family had previously donated his army tunic and medals, including his Military Cross, to the Montrose museum. John Wallace said he could remember pictures of Vic with his grandfather, and pictures of her at Rossie of Main's farm with a foal. "It was a favourite story for my parents to repeat to us, but also for my grandfather to tell us about," he said. "We would go up to his closet and try on his jacket, which is also here at the museum, so it's been part of my family and my life forever." Museum trustee Sian Brewis said it was an incredible story. "Not only has the story survived, the two families involved were aware of it. "They had the diaries, the tunic, the letters, and it is just incredible over the past couple years that all of this has come together, and we have such a complete and incredible story now. "It's just nice to have a World War One story that's a happy one as well. "It's so amazing, of 131 horses from this area Vic was the only one to come back."
