FORMER county star Damian Diver hopes that the Donegal senior footballers can overcome Sunday’s disappointment and stick together in order to try and go one further in the 2026 campaign. Jim McGuinness’s Donegal were on the receiving end of a ten-point defeat to Kerry in Sunday’s All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final at Croke Park. It was a disappointing […]
By Michael McMullan WHEN Gavin White swept onto the scraps of Sunday’s All-Ireland final throw-in, Jack O’Connor’s message would’ve been fresh in the mind. The finishing touches to the Kingdom’s 39th All-Ireland title was about playing on their terms. Not Donegal’s. Before they got on the bus for Croke Park, O’Connor laid out a message that […]
All-Ireland SFC final Kerry 1-26 Donegal 0-19 By Michael McMullan at Croke Park KERRY ended Donegal’s chances of a third All-Ireland title on Sunday to get their hands on Sam once again. Advertisement Joe O’Connor’s late goal put the icing on the cake for the Munster champions who were never behind. Dylan Geaney opened the […]
DONEGAL play their 11th championship game on Sunday as they enter the arena on the season’s biggest day. Here is a look back at Donegal’s road to Croker… ULSTER Game 1 Advertisement Ulster SFC Preliminary Round – April 6 Donegal 1-25 Derry 1-15 Donegal: Shaun Patton; Finnbarr Roarty (0-1), Brendan McCole, Peadar Mogan (0-2); Ryan […]
All-Ireland SFC final Donegal v Kerry Sunday, Croke Park, 3.30pm By Michael McMullan Advertisement IT was convincing in 1992 when Donegal bossed Dublin to lift Sam for the first time. In 2012, a well-versed training ground routine morphed into an early Michael Murphy goal Mayo never recovered from. Two finals, two wins. A 100 per […]
By Michael McMullan MICHAEL Murphy sees Kerry as an “incredible” challenge in Sunday’s All-Ireland final showdown as Donegal take aim on taking Sam Maguire to the hills for the third time. The 2012 winning captain spent the last two seasons pouring over the race for Sam in his role as analyst before answering the call […]
BY RYAN FERRY DONEGAL manager Jim McGuinness says the challenge in front of his team is huge as they aim to land the Sam Maguire Cup for only the third time in the county’s history. It has been a mammoth campaign to get through to this stage. No team has ever had to play 11 […]
By Michael McMullan KERRY have named their team for Sunday’s All-Ireland final clash with Ulster champions Donegal. Jack O’Connor has named the same starting 15 from their semi-final win over Tyrone with Diarmuid O’Connor listed on the squad. The Kingdom, like they have done all through the championship, have listed 13 subs which will be […]
SO here it is. Like I mentioned last week, we have the two best teams in the final and I don’t think anyone can argue with that. This final will be interesting for a number of reasons which we will get into later but one of the most interesting factors is the contrast in styles. […]
By Michael McMullan THERE is no second-guessing your role when playing under Jim McGuinness, stresses captain Patrick McBrearty. McGuinness handed a teenage McBrearty his championship debut against Antrim in 2011, having played in the minor curtain-raiser. Since lifting the Anglo Celt Cup for a second time earlier in the season, McBrearty has been used in […]
