John Joyce: Last News

Ayr United caretaker Jim Duffy admits preparing a team was the last thing he expected to be doing this week.But the hugely experienced figure can't wait to ditch a week of chaos at Somerset by tackling Dunfermline tomorrow.The Honest Men were left without a manager just four games into the new season when the club parted company with David Hopkin yesterday.Duffy will now take the team along with first coaches John Joyce, Dave Timmins and Derek Stillie.And he's pledging to keep the players' minds fully focused on football following their upheaval only weeks into the campaign.Duffy told the Ayrshire Post: "This is certainly not something I anticipated when I came in during the summer to help Davie out with the coaching."But the Board have

A group of Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania in a letter on Saturday slammed state Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, both Democrats, over how the 2020 election has been handled, specifically calling for Shapiro to recuse himself from future election-related issues.  The letter, which was signed by Republican Reps. Glenn Thompson, Mike Kelly, Dan Meuser, John Joyce, Scott Perry, Lloyd Smucker, Guy Reschenthaler, Fred Keller and Brian Fitzpatrick, argues that "conflicts and irregularities have greatly eroded public trust in the Commonwealth’s electoral system." It lays the blame for those issues squarely at the feet of Boockvar and Shapiro.