By Ryan Ferry DONEGAL will have to contend with their third game in 13 days when they face Monaghan on Saturday but Jim McGuinness says the team will embrace the challenge. This is only the third year that the preliminary quarter-finals have been in operation so there isn’t a huge amount of data to go […]
THE big weekends just keep on coming. This weekend we step in to the business end of the season and we have some absolute crackers to look forward to. First of all, let’s cast our minds back to last weekend and roughly trawl through the games. Let’s start with Donegal who know in all honesty […]
BEFORE Donegal and Tyrone have even kicked a ball in the All-Ireland series, it has been blown wide open. Last weekend’s result in Castlebar now means that anything is possible in this group and we could see one of the big guns exit the competition a lot earlier than they would have wanted. Let’s just […]
AS I sit down to write this week’s piece, I’m struggling in that I actually don’t know where to begin. I think I can speak for most when I say that was probably one of the best Ulster finals we have ever witnessed. If I’m being 100 per cent honest towards the end of the […]
By Niall Gartland AND another one! Dáire Ó Baoill first came to the attention of the wider GAA community when he smashed home a first-half hat-trick against Crossmaglen in the semi-finals of the Ulster Senior Club Championship in November 2018. One win later – against Scotstown – and Gaoth Dobhair were provincial kingpins for the […]
WE have had some fantastic games already this year, but there is no doubt that the game of the season to date takes place this weekend. Donegal and Armagh will clash this Saturday evening in Clones as they yet again contest this year’s Ulster final. When looking at who could possibly win this weekend’s game […]
WE’RE back in action this weekend with round six of the National Football leagues with plenty still to be decided. To date, we have a very interesting start to the league with all the rule changes and tweaks. By and large, we have all been fairly happy. This week things should ramp up a notch […]
By Michael McMullan NOT everyone captains an inter-county senior team in their early 20s. Not every 23-year-old lifts Sam. Not everyone makes an inter-county return at 35. Not everyone is Michael Murphy. The Glenwsilly man came on at half-time to help engineer Donegal’s victory over Derry on Sunday. He kicked a point, won vital balls […]
By Shaun Casey ULSTER Junior champions Naomh Pádraig, Uisce Chaoin have rattled off eight goals in their last three championship outings and manager Daniel McCauley has been delighted with their attacking play as they reached the final four of the All-Ireland series. The Donegal side claimed four three-pointers in their twinning final win over Tara of […]
By Niall Gartland WELL, they do say you make your own luck. Former Donegal corner-back John Joe Doherty wouldn’t have started the 1992 All-Ireland final only for an injury to a teammate, the unfortunate Martin Shovlin. A tearful Shovlin ruled himself out on the morning of the match, having sustained a neck injury training on […]
