BY GERRY McLAUGHLIN THERE is a very good reason why Donegal boss Jim McGuinness thinks so highly of the highly promising Ciarán Moore, who starred in St Eunan’s Senior Championship final victory over Dungloe last weekend. In full flight he has the cruising power of a Mercedes, always has time on the ball and plays […]
By Ryan Ferry BARRY Meehan has given stellar service to St Eunan’s down through the years and this Sunday, he hopes to manage them to Senior Championship glory for the first time as they face Dungloe. Twenty five years ago, Meehan scored a goal for St Eunan’s as they defeated Naomh Columba in the Junior […]
Former Donegal players Tony Boyle and Raymond Sweeney have given plenty back to Dungloe. They’ve help build a winning culture in ladies’ football and shaped many of the men running out against St Eunan’s on Sunday. They spoke to Michael McMullan …. A TOURIST walking down the street would be forgiven for thinking the locals […]
Naomh Padraig Uisce Chaoin are preparing for the Donegal junior final on Saturday. Their senior ladies lost to Downings in the last weekend’s final as they make their early steps. Michael McMenamin tells Michael McMullan the club’s story of progress FORMED in 1989, based in Muff, Naomh Padraig Uisce Chaoin are now firmly on the […]
IT’S Monday. It’s 5.30am. I’m sitting in the Terminal Two departure lounge. The flight to Dortmund beckons. My mind has already wandered to what might have been. I’m after meeting Mr Celtic – Marty Gilmore from the Ballymena Shamrocks club. I promised him I’ll try and behave better than Jamie Carragher did last year when […]
By Michael McMullan WITH Naomh Conaill gone from the race, the Dr Maguire Cup will have a new home this winter and we’ll know more after this weekend’s semi-finals. One swing of Eoin McGeehin’s foot saw St Eunan’s over the line after Naomh Conaill’s comeback in the quarter-final. It doesn’t get any handier for Barry Meehan’s […]
By Michael McMullan THE mood is upbeat in the St Eunan’s camp after their win over champions Naomh Conaill but skipper Kieran Tobin knows full well his side have more work to do. Speaking ahead of Saturday’s semi-final showdown with last year’s beaten finalists Gaoth Dobhair, Tobin hopes it will be third time lucky. Twice […]
By Michael McMullan FOUR Masters manager Kevin Sinclair feels Gaoth Dobhair will be a “different proposition” in this weekend’s Donegal SFC quarter-final. Now in his third year as manager, he is not keen on the term “bonus territory” but states his side have ticked their two main boxes – winning the Division Two league and […]
AFTER all the group games, it’s now crunch time in the Donegal Senior Football Championship this weekend. The race for the Dr Maguire Cup has now entered the quarter-final stages. By now you will know that I’m not a fan of how our championship is structured but, for the time being, it is what it […]
THERE has been a lot of talk and movement around the trial of the new rules and a number of challenge games have taken place. Some of these challenge games involved club teams and others involving county players. First of all, even if we don’t get anything out of these new proposed rule changes then […]
