That the Parliament congratulates Shetland athletes from the men’s football and the women’s hockey teams for their victories over their Orkney counterparts at the annual Senior Inter-County competition held in Orkney on 27 July 2024; understands that the men’s team won their match by 2-1 in extra time to win the Milne Cup for the third consecutive year and that the women beat Orkney 4-2 on penalties to win the Lady Hamilton Cup, the first win on Orkney soil since 1982; congratulates Finn Regan and Lewis Harkness on scoring for the football team and Megan Hibbert for scoring the winning penalty in the hockey match; commends the work of all the athletes, coaches and supporters from both Shetland and Orkney; pays tribute to the work of the sporting organisations in the Northern Isles, and all who make the competition possible, and looks forward to next year’s Inter-County in Shetland
Supported by:
Karen Adam, Jeremy Balfour, Colin Beattie, Miles Briggs, Ariane Burgess, Alexander Burnett, Stephanie Callaghan, Finlay Carson, Foysol Choudhury, Jackie Dunbar, Annabelle Ewing, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, Liam McArthur, Stuart McMillan, Audrey Nicoll, Ash Regan, Kevin Stewart, Paul Sweeney, Sue Webber, Tess White