HERE we go. We are at the quarter-final stages here in Donegal but we nearly didn’t make it. Most of you might have seen the footage circulating online of the game between Reigning champions St Eunan’s and Termon. Termon made a substitution, but before the player being taken off had fully left the field of […]
By Michael McMullan GAOTH Dobhair manager Rónán Mac Niallais said Kilcar is as tough a draw as they could’ve got in this weekend’s Donegal quarter-finals. Despite winning all four games during the championship’s group phase, Mac Niallais feels they’ll be underdogs, something that will suit his side. “There is nothing like a good tough draw […]
By Michael McMullan ST EUNAN’S manager Barry Meehan is happy with this side’s championship preparations but is expecting a different Kilcar this weekend. The sides meet on Sunday evening in O’Donnell Park as the Letterkenny outfit begins the defence of their title. While St Eunan’s missed out on the league final, Kilcar needed three wins to stay […]
Patrick McBrearty played in Donegal’s 2012 All-Ireland winning team as a teenager. He will lead the county onto the Croke Park sod on Sunday as captain. Michael McMullan writes…. IT’S all about Donegal for Patrick McBrearty. Yeah, he’d love to be a guaranteed starter, but it’s not as easy or as simple as that. McBrearty […]
By Michael McMullan WE’LL not find out who’ll take home the Dr Maguire Cup for the winter this weekend but we will know four clubs who won’t. The final round of group games will take place with the bottom four teams in the Donegal Senior Championship omitted from the knock-out stages and faced with the […]
AND just like that, once club championship football comes along, the wind and the rain come to join it. We are getting deep into the rounds of the Donegal Senior Championship here with round three of the group games taking place this weekend. Hopefully after the next round or so then we will see some […]
By Michael McMullan BEFORE a ball was kicked in the 2005 Dr Maguire Cup race Naomh Conaill had yet to get their hands on the biggest prize in Donegal. So much has changed. They have seven titles to their name. When they make the journey to Falcarragh this weekend they’ll be the fancied horse once […]
WHEN Jim McGuinness was appointed Donegal manager ahead of the 2011 season, Mark McHugh sensed there was something special on the horizon. Having worked with the Glenties clubman at u-21 level, McHugh had an insight into what McGuinness would bring. From also-rans to All-Ireland champions, it was a swift transformation under the watchful eye of […]
THE draws for the Donegal SFC were made on Wednesday night. The format will be the same as last season. All 16 teams will play four games – two home and two away – to decide who advances to the knock-out stages. The top four teams will advance to the quarter-finals with play-offs used to […]
By Michael McMullan KILCAR won their seventh Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachtatitle on Monday in Cork. It was fitting on two fronts. Captain Eoin McHugh followed in the footsteps of his father James who lifted the cup in 1990. With the club celebrating its 100 year, it was another entry into the roll of honour of […]
