By Michael McMullan DUNGIVEN face a huge challenge this weekend if they are to make the final of this year’s Ulster Minor Football Tournament. That’s the take of joint manager Darrell O’Kane who had a look at the Down champions Burren last Saturday. Burren (2016) and Dungiven (1990) are past winners of the popular minor […]
By Michael McMullan TWO previous winners of the competition – Burren and Dungiven – go head to head on Sunday for a place in the final of this year’s Ulster Minor Football Tournament in Belfast. Dungiven were winners in 1990 and Emmett McKeever from that team is joint manager with Darrell O’Kane’s this season. With […]
By Michael McMullan SATURDAY sees the resumption of the prestigious Ulster minor football tournament in Belfast. Hosted by St Paul’s, the tournament didn’t take place for the last two seasons and all nine Ulster county champions will do battle to take the title Lavey won on New Year’s Day 2020. Fermanagh champions Irvinestown only recently […]
By Michael McMullan THE draw for the Ulster minor championship has paired Donegal champions Four Masters with the Fermanagh champions in the preliminary round. Four Masters were winners over the Glenswilly in the county final last week and await the winners of the unfinished competition in Fermanagh. Favourites Irvinestown play St Oliver Plunkett’s (a Coa/Ederney […]
THE Derry Senior Football Championship kicks into action for another season and Niall Gartland look at the top teams on the roll of honour… Bellaghy – 21 titles EVEN though they haven’t won the Derry Championship since 2005, Bellaghy sit comfortably at the top of the tree with 21 titles to their name. They’ve also […]
‘We genuinely should have won that All-Ireland that year’
Champions of Derry and Ulster, Dungiven were aiming for All-Ireland glory
Donegal senior star Niall O’Donnell may not feature
DRIVING past Cathal O’hOisin’s election posters in Dungiven the other day brought me back to childhood in Station Road.
AT half time on Sunday in Celtic Park, the tea-room was filled with familiar faces. I love that familiarity of the GAA. We are, as I once said to Peter Robinson, bigger than the Masons, without the funny handshake.
