Killybegs ended their 36-year wait by winning the 1988 Donegal title, one of five in a golden nine-year spell. John Cunningham was their winning captain in 1995. He spoke with Michael McMullan… BY the time Barry Cunningham raised the Dr Maguire Cup, it was a bittersweet moment. Killybegs were Donegal champions of 1988. The famine was […]
AFTER a few weeks of shadow boxing, this weekend the trap door is in place here in Donegal. We’ve had four rounds of games so far and we’re left with four teams who are straight through to the quarter-finals and this weekend the eight remaining teams will play off to see who will join them […]
Christmas means St Paul’s in Belfast for the top minor football teams across Ulster. Michael McMullan looks at the leading clubs across the competition’s history Ballinderry 4 1996, 1997, 2001, 2008 THE Shamrocks are one of the two Derry clubs to have won the title on four occasions, with three different teams. Gerard Cassidy was […]
Susanne White is one of the top players in Ireland yet struggled to make Donegal teams at underage. After parking a love for soccer, she is a beacon of the county’s future. She spoke with Michael McMullan AN HOUR shooting the breeze with Susanne White is time well spent. A love of sport hangs from […]
By Michael McMullan LAVEY have appointed Killybegs native Brendan Maguire as their new senior football manager. Maguire, currently living in Derry, has been involved as both selector and manager with Faughanvale. He takes over from Gary Cushnahan who stepped away at the end of last season. Advertisement Maguire played for and managed Killybegs at all […]
Ireland soccer skipper Seamus Coleman could have taken a different path had he stayed in Donegal. Shaun Casey chats with a man who has never lost touch with the GAA SEAMUS Coleman’s mind begins to drift sometimes. How things could have been so much different. At just 16 years of age, the Republic of Ireland […]
By Michael McMullan EOGHAN Bán Gallagher says Donegal’s visit to Armagh on Saturday will be a battle and insists it’s something they must embrace as they aim for consistency. The Killybegs man, joint vice-captain with Killybegs club-mate Hugh McFadden, feels Sunday’s draw with Galway was a building block, a game they failed to score in […]
By Shaun Casey KILLYBEGS native Niall Erskine has been nominated as a candidate for the President of the GAA by the Donegal GAA County Executive. The election for the next GAA president will take place in early 2023 at Annual Congress with the current president Larry McCarthy finishing up his three-year term in February of […]
KILLYBEGS are embracing the underdogs’ tag as they head into the Donegal Senior Football Championship quarter-final against near neighbours Kilcar. Manager Antoine O’Hara believes that Kilcar are “one of the top two or three teams in Donegal, if not in Ulster” but hopes that his youthful side will have enough to match them on Saturday afternoon. […]
By Frank Craig MOST Killybegs natives have a famous ‘one that got away’ fishing story. But Barry Cunningham says the 1991 Ulster Club final is the big one ‘the Fishermen’ could and probably should have landed. The history books have it in black and white that Monaghan’s Castleblayney, powered on by Nudie Hughes, edged out […]
