Tag Archive for "Glenties"

Jim McGuinness: ‘Time was right to leave Donegal’

BY CHRIS MCNULTY c.mcnulty@donegalnews.com ONE of Jim McGuinness’s defining qualities is that single-minded ability to move forward. McGuinness rarely looks back in anger and, during his time as the Donegal manager, often noted how he’d never seen footage of himself playing the game. Advertisement Although he has already begun the process of moving on from […]

Jim McGuinness will go down as one of the all-time great managers

JIM McGuinness’s tenure as the Donegal senior football team manager amounted to sixty-six games between McKenna Cup, National League and Championship, but what defined the Glenties man’s reign were the 24 championship games under his watch.

Celebrating trad music in the Bluestacks

A CELEBRATION of the strong tradition of Irish music in the Bluestack Mountains will take place this weekend near Glenties.

Anthony Thompson: Donegal’s quiet man will be a key figure in Croke Park

Chris McNulty on how Anthony Thompson has become one of the most pivotal players for Jim McGuinness’s Donegal

Shooting starts on short film An Crann in Glenties

SHOOTING has begun in Glenties on a short film based on Núala Ní Dhomhnaill’s poem of the same name.

Glenties man Brendan ordained as deacon in Maynooth

LAST Sunday a Glenties man was ordained as deacons at Mass celebrated in the College Chapel of the national seminary in Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth.