BY CHRIS MCNULTY IN CLONES EOGHAN Bán Gallagher followed in the family ways yesterday with a Man of the Match display as the Donegal minors scooped a first Ulster MFC title since 2006. Back in 1985, his father, John Bán, played on the Donegal minor team that won an Ulster title. Two years later, he […]
Jim McGuinness hails comeback king Christy Toye
BY CHRIS MCNULTY JIM McGuinness hailed Christy Toye’s influence as the St Michael’s man marked his 50th Championship game win Sunday’s Ulster final win. Toye became only the third Donegal player ever to enter the 50 club – after Michael Hegarty and Colm McFadden – completing a magnificent comeback season. Advertisement Toye was shot down […]
Brett McGinty one step away from sixth Irish title
BY CHRIS MCNULTY BRETT McGinty goes in search of his sixth Irish title on Friday night when he takes on Kevin Kehoe of Marble City in the 70kgs final at the National Senior Cadet Championships. The St Johnston man has the bit between the teeth again having been controversially pipped to a Youth 1 title […]
Donegal’s Double Delights in Clones
BY CHRIS MCNULTY IN CLONES DONEGAL fans painted Clones green and gold yesterday as the minor and senior footballers won their Ulster finals. For the first time ever, Donegal is celebrating the ‘dream double’ and last night thousands were set to converge on Donegal town to toast the arrival of the Fr Murray and Anglo-Celt […]
Jim McGuinness hails third Ulster final win as ‘the best victory’
BY CHRIS MCNULTY IN CLONES JIM McGuinness hailed Sunday’s Ulster final win over Monaghan as the best victory of his tenure. McGuinness has just led Donegal to their most successful period in history with three Ulster titles now to go alongside an All-Ireland in 2012. Advertisement It’s three Ulsters in four campaigns for McGuinness, who […]
Greencastle’s Roma McLaughlin enjoying Ireland’s Euro experience in Norway
BY CHRIS MCNULTY ROMA McLaughlin sometimes has to pinch herself when she looks at her surroundings. The 16-year-old Greencastle native is part of the Republic of Ireland Under-19 squad which takes on Sweden in Jessheim, Norway this evening (6pm) in their final group game at the UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championships with the semi-finals in touching […]
Report: Donegal dethrone Monaghan to regain hold of Anglo-Celt
DONEGAL 0-15 MONAGHAN 1-09 Report by Chris McNulty at St Tiernach’s Park, Clones DONEGAL are Ulster Champions once again and Jim McGuinness’s team once again has the rest of the country nervously craning their heads north-westerly after delivering an emphatic message in their defeat of Monaghan in Sunday’s Ulster final. Advertisement On the same Clones […]
Ulster SFC final preview: Donegal eyes on a third Ulster title in four years
Donegal are bidding to win the Ulster title for a third time in four years on Sunday…
Report: Another clean sheet but another blank for Finn Harps against Galway
Finn Harps 0 Galway FC 0 By Chris McNulty at Finn Park IT was Finn Harps’s season in a nutshell at Finn Park on Friday night. Advertisement A scoreless draw with Galway FC made Ollie Horgan’s words of last month ring true once more. The Harps manager had said that his team would be ‘hard […]
Donegal boxers chase Cadet final places
BY CHRIS MCNULTY ST JOHNSTON duo Brett McGinty and Callum Toland along with Dungloe’s Matthew McCole carry the Donegal hopes into the semi-finals of the National Senior Cadet Championships which take place this weekend. McGinty, Toland and McCole are all in semi-final action on Saturday. McGinty is chasing a sixth Irish title and comes up […]