Donegal name team for trip to Clare


DONEGAL name their team for this weekend’s All-Ireland SFC clash with Clare in Ennis. There is no place for injured duo Michael Langan and Peadar Mogan. Langan went off injured against Down in the Ulster Championship while Mogan is still on the roac back to full fitness after coming off crutches for a foot injury. […]


MATCH PREVIEW: Donegal face into tough trip to take on Clare


All-Ireland SFC Round 1 Clare v Donegal Sunday, Ennis, 2pm By Michael McMullan DONEGAL’S season won’t be defined by Saturday, but their trip to Cusack Park presents danger and opportunity in equal measure. A win would come disguised as a springboard of sorts in a county desperately searching for any shoot of light. Advertisement It’s […]


“Richie Ryan tends to injure a few men every session”


Donegal goalkeeper Luke White takes on Gaelic Life’s Q&A Name: Luke White. Age: 28. Teams played for: St Martin’s (Wexford), Carndonagh (Donegal) and Donegal. Advertisement Earliest GAA memory? Being put in goal by my brother to practice out in the garden. Which team-mate has been the most inspirational and why? Danny Cullen or Rory O’Connor, […]


Preview: A different championship landscape


Ulster SFC quarter-final Down v Donegal Sunday, Páirc Esler, 2pm By Michael McMullan WHAT a difference two years can make. Donegal were facile winners, 2-25 to 1-12, over Down in Páirc Esler in the 2021 championship opener. A lot has changed. Declan Bonner was Donegal’s manager. Paddy Tally was in charge of the Mourne County […]


Donegal name squad for Down championship clash


DONEGAL have named their team for Sunday’s trip to Páirc Esler (2pm) to face Down in the opening round of the Ulster SFC. Oisin Gallen has been named despite being earlier ruled out with injury and there is no place in the panel for Eoghan McGettigan, recently called up after fine club  form with Naomh […]


KEVIN CASSIDY: Donegal are a wounded animal


THE Ulster championship continued to deliver last weekend with a pulsating encounter between old rivals Monaghan and Tyrone. The game was an absolute cracker that had everything you want from the game of football. This was a massive one for Vinny Corey and his players. When you consider their league campaign and the amount of […]


O’Rourke – Donegal have huge potential


BY DÁIRE BONNAR DONEGAL manager Aidan O’Rourke believes that there isn’t a team in Ulster that he would be afraid of meeting in the championship. O’Rourke will take charge of his first championship game this Sunday as Donegal travel to Páirc Esler in Newry to take on Down in the Ulster quarter-finals. And since taking over […]


‘Niamh McLaughlin has had the worst of injuries and shown so much resilience’


SUSANNE White goes inside the changing room to reveal the characters that she has played with… Name: Susanne White. Age: 21. Teams played for: Advertisement County: Donegal. Club: Killybegs, Donegal and Bredagh, Down. University: Queen’s University, Belfast. Earliest GAA memory? Going to one of my first-ever Gaelic trainings with my two neighbours when I was […]