By Michael McMullan DONEGAL have their fingers crossed midfielder Michael Langan can return to action sooner rather than later. The St Michael’s man was forced off with a hamstring injury in the opening minutes of their win over Kerry. Langan played a starring role on their run to the All-Ireland semi-final last season and carried his […]
By Michael McMullan STORM Éowyn said no to Donegal’s visit to Kerry on Sunday but they’ll get their 2025 off the ground with the visit of Dublin on Saturday night. Jim McGuinness didn’t even need to release his squad, leaving us all pondering what his latest Donegal model is going to look like. However, no […]
By Michael McMullan ULSTER champions Donegal kick their new season into gear on Sunday with a trip to Kerry. It’s the second season of the second stint for manager Jim McGuinness and there are solid foundations to build on. More than solid. They will look with regret at how close they came to making last […]
By Ryan Ferry DONEGAL senior football manager Jim McGuinness says strength-in-depth will be needed this year as county teams get to grips with a new faster and more demanding game of gaelic football. With three players on each side having to stay at either side of the field, there is going to be a heavy […]
I WAS in Donegal last week and three different people told me – in absolute confidence (“Don’t mention my name Joe”) – that in their in house training games, Michael Murphy has been playing in goals. According to them, Jimmy has discovered a loophole in the no pass to the keeper rule, by not putting […]
1 The boom is back in Donegal THE return of Jim McGuinness as senior football manager lifted the spirits and expectation of an entire county. The players were there but they needed to all row in behind something. And they did. The wall around their training field in Convoy brought intrigue that there was something […]
By Michael McMullan JIM McGuinness has revealed five players he will have as part of his plans for 2025. The high-profile addition has been the return from retirement of All-Ireland winning captain Michael Murphy. In an interview on Monday’s DL Debate, on Highland Radio, McGuiness outlined a further four players he can call on for […]
IT is a terrible irony that Jimmy McGuinness’s system won Michael Murphy an All-Ireland medal yet ruined his best years. As a young footballer Michael was so good it was cartoonish. Here was a real life Hotshot Hamish, fetching impossible high balls and driving them to the net like Tony Yeboah, the ‘keeper standing there wondering […]
JUST as I was about to finish this week’s piece the earth-shattering news broke that Micheal Murphy has returned to the Donegal camp. Rumours had been floating about for a number of weeks and I have to admit when I saw him on TV during the interprovincials last month, I noticed he has trimmed down a […]
By Shaun Casey Nine All-Star awards will be making their way north at tomorrow night’s ceremony. Of the 15 players honoured on the PwC GAA/GPA Football All-Star team, three Ulster teams are represented. All-Ireland champions Armagh have the most with six awards while Ulster champs Donegal have two. Tyrone are also represented on the team […]
