By Michael McMullan IT wasn’t always like this for Downings. On Sunday, they make the journey to Cavan (2.15pm) to take on the Breffni champions Ballyhaise, but their origin tells more of the story. They were Donegal Junior champions in 2016. Two years later they were still in the junior ranks and playing their football […]
By Niall Gartland BALLYHAISE celebrated their Cavan Intermediate Championship title with gusto but they’re treating their looming provincial campaign with the appropriate seriousness. They take on Donegal champions Downings on Sunday at Kingspan Breffni Park and they’ll be in mighty form having made amends for the disappointments of recent years in Cavan. Their championship final […]
THERE have been eight different winners in as many years in the Donegal Intermediate Championship so it’s hard to pick a potential champion at the outset. Teams to watch out include Downings, Realt Na Mara and Malin, all of whom played Division One football this year. Then you have Naomh Columba, who lost the Division […]
DONEGAL INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTER-FINALS DUNLGLOE V NAOMH MUIRE Saturday, O’Donnell Park, 5pm Oisin Bonner put an injury-laden season behind with a tally of 2-2 as Dungloe came through the recent dress rehearsal of the teams to top the group. Dungloe lost last year’s decider after a replay to Cloughaneely should come through against the men from […]
DONEGAL INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTER-FINALS DUNLGLOE V NAOMH MUIRE Saturday, O’Donnell Park, 5pm Oisin Bonner put an injury-laden season behind with a tally of 2-2 as Dungloe came through the recent dress rehearsal of the teams to top the group. Dungloe lost last year’s decider after a replay to Cloughaneely should come through against the men from […]
By Shaun Casey IT doesn’t get much sweeter than winning the league title in the dying seconds. That’s how Downings won Division Two last weekend. With the last kick of the game and facing an army of Malin men on the goalline, Johnny McGroddy blasted the ball into the top corner. “It’s one of those […]
By Frank Craig Downings can write the most significant chapter in their history on Sunday if they manage to down Cavan outfit Denn in the Ulster JFC decider. The Donegal champions overcame highly fancied Monaghan side Sean McDermott’s last time out, 1-9 to 0-8 – and they achieved that feat in dramatic circumstances. Downings were a […]
