StatSports’ Alan Clarke named as a finalist for EY Entrepreneur of the Year programme

Alan Clarke of StatSports pictured working with Arsenal

Alan Clarke of local company StatSports has been named as a finalist for this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year programme.

Clarke has been nominated in the international category of the prestigious award where he will be up against Crest Solutions (Frank Madden), Diona (Graham Stubbs), PlanNet21 (Denise Tormey), SOSventures (Sean O’Sullivan), Stripe (Patrick and John Collison), Vita Liberata (Alyson Hogg) and Vizor (Ross Kelly and Conor Crowley).

StatSports was founded in Dundalk by Alan Clarke and Sean O’Connor in 2008 and is now based in Newry.

Since then StatSports has grown to become Europe’s premier, unrivalled sports science service with Manchester Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and the Leinster Rugby team amongst their clients.

Their range of products includes the world’s only GPS analysis and consultancy service. StatSports offer teams and individual athletes the opportunity to train and test themselves using the most advanced sports science equipment currently available, catering for all teams and individuals from the elite to the amateur.

As part of the nomination for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year, finalists will travel with 100 former finalists for a week-long CEO retreat to Berlin and Munich in June. There they wil visit some of the biggest names in German industry, including the BMW headquarters.

The awards gala will take place in October with a winner in the three categories announced before an overall winner is selected to represented Ireland at the World Entrepreneur of the Year awards in Monaco in June 2016.

Help sought in locating BMW stolen from Lordship area

An appeal has been issued for help in locating a stolen BMW, which was taken from outside a house in the Lordship area last night.

The car, pictured above with registration plate GU08 KHK, has since been given the registration 08 LH 11894 after being taken in from the North.

Anyone who spotted the blue coloured car is asked to contact their local Garda Station.

Black BMW stolen in Dundalk overnight

A picture of the stolen vehicle

Information is being sought on the whereabouts of a black BMW 320D which was stolen from the Lis na Dara estate on the Carrickmacross Road last night.

The car – registration 08 LH 5839 – was last seen by its male owner at midnight.

It is understood the window of the car was broken to gain access to it.

Anyone with information on its whereabouts is asked to contact Dundalk Garda Station at 042 9335577.

Vehicles damaged as BMW flees across border following high speed chase

A number of cars were damaged in Dundalk on Saturday after a BMW fled across the border following a chase with Gardaí.

Local Gardaí tried to fence the driver of the car, which had no registration plates, in on the Ramparts but he mounted a footpath to escape. The car then proceeded up River Lane, where it struck a car before turning right onto Park Street the wrong way and then speeding down Earl Street. From there it also crashed into a couple of parked cars on Clanbrassil Street and the Castleblayney Road before finally fleeing over the border.

The incident happened around 3.30pm, with the car believed to have been stolen from north Dublin the previous day.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Dundalk Gardaí on 042-9335577.

Man hospitalised following crash at the Marshes

The scene at the Marshes Shopping Centre last night

A man in his 20s was taken to hospital following a road traffic accident at the Marshes Shopping Centre last night.

The incident happened around 9pm when the BMW car he was driving left the road and crashed into the car park of the centre.

Two units of the fire service attended the scene and had to use cutting equipment to the free the man from the vehicle.

He was subsequently removed to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda with a suspected broken leg.

It marked a busy evening for the fire service who earlier on had attended a fire at a derelict house opposite St Vincent’s Secondary School in Seatown. The blaze was quickly brought under control, however, having been confined to a small area of the house.

Garda appeal after car crashes into front of house at the Lisdoo

Maxwell’s Cottages

Gardaí are appealing for information after a car crashed into the front of a house in the Lisdoo area of the town in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The driver of the white BMW car, which had a Northern registration, had been doing doughnuts in the area when he lost control of the vehicle before crashing into a terraced house at Maxwell’s Cottages, opposite the Lisdoo Arms, at around 3.30am.

The driver then fled the scene.

Thankfully none of the occupants of the house were injured.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact Dundalk Garda Station.

The damage caused to the front of the property

Car stolen from Kilcurry

The grey BMW 5 series sport car has been stolen from Kilcurry.

Local pub Brubakers has issued an appeal for people in the area to keep an eye out for it.

The car’s registration is 11 D 43303 and anyone with information as to its whereabouts is asked to contact Dundalk Gardaí.

Meanwhile, on the Avenue Road

Thanks to Mary J, who spotted this BMW X5 with the registration plate ‘T3ISTO’ at the Avenue Road roundabout in Dundalk.

I guess the owner is a fan of the Dutch DJ’s beats but what next… a T4k3 TH4T plate?

Source: Mary J (Twitter)