By Chris McNulty FORMER Westmeath star Jack Cooney has joined Rory Gallagher’s backroom team in Donegal. Cooney was ratified as a coach/selector at a meeting of the Donegal county committee in Ballybofey last night. Advertisement A star with the Lake County in the 1990s, Cooney was a selector with Westmeath during the managerial reigns of […]
Rory Gallagher gears up for Fermanagh game after posting first Donegal win
BY CHRIS MCNULTY IN BALLYBOFEY AFTER securing his first win as the Donegal manager, Rory Gallagher will face his home county, Fermanagh in the final McKenna Cup group game on Wednesday night in MacCumhaill Park (throw-in 8pm). Donegal swatted aside Queen’s University on Sunday, Gallagher’s men winning 2-16 to 1-8. Advertisement Martin O’Reilly’s early goal […]
Report: MacNiallais on fire as Donegal prove too strong for Queen’s
DONEGAL 2-16 QUEEN’S 1-08 BY CHRIS MCNULTY AT SEAN MACCUMHAILL PARK DONEGAL coasted past Queen’s for the first win of the Rory Gallagher era. Advertisement In what was Gallagher’s first home game as the county’s manager, Donegal had a useful 70 minutes in difficult conditions, but spurred on by Odhrán MacNiallais, Christy Toye and Martin […]
Frank McGlynn back for another go with Donegal
FRANK McGlynn has replayed the 2014 All-Ireland final in his head so many times since that fateful September Sunday when Kieran Donaghy and Kerry dashed Donegal’s dreams.
Rory Gallagher: Donegal panel will be ‘open ended’ during spring
Donegal manager Rory Gallagher says the door won’t be closed to his panel during the National League
Declan Bonner: The work starts now for Donegal
THE McKenna Cup is all about blooding new players and seeing what players are capable of moving on into the National League panel.
Knee injury expected to keep Patrick McBrearty out of McKenna Cup
A KNEE injury is set to keep Patrick McBrearty out of the McKenna Cup campaign.
More experienced Donegal to take on Queen’s
CHRISTY Toye, Frank McGlynn, Paddy McGrath and Odhrán MacNiallais will make their first appearances of 2015 on Sunday as Donegal take on Queen’s University, Belfast at Sean MacCumhaill Park (throw-in 2pm).
Martin McElhinney wants to be Donegal’s man in the middle in 2015
IN the absence of Michael Murphy and co, it was a proud Martin McElhinney who captained Donegal into battle at Owenbeg on Sunday,
Rory Gallagher: “We were realistic in what we expected”
RORY Gallagher’s first game in charge of Donegal ended in an eleven-point defeat to Derry, but you didn’t get the feeling that the Fermanagh native will have too many sleepless nights over this one.