Donegal swept past Tyrone to book their place in the Ulster SFC final, scoring a first win over fierce north-west rivals Tyrone in four Championship clashes as they triumphed by four points at Kingspan Breffni Park.

A bleed on the brain and two concussions in the space of seven months convinced Ryan McHugh to take a complete break from football.

The funeral of one of the victims in the Donegal crash is taking place today.

Galway 4-17 Donegal 0-14: Galway had never scored four goals against an Ulster team in championship football before but such was the ease with which they prised open the Donegal rearguard in Sligo on Saturday that they could have got double that haul.

The Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship is likely to have a new leader after tomorrow’s Abbey Hotel Donegal Forest Rally, the third round of the campaign as series leader and former champion Josh Moffett has withdrawn his entry due to business commitments.

It’s time to take the advice of the five men quoted below and double the guards, writes John Fogarty

Eleven-time senior All-Ireland winner Deirdre O’Reilly has confirmed she has retired from intercounty football after a hugely-impressive 15-year career.

SCENES. Scenes everywhere.

It’s Donegal Tuesday in Galway. What’s that, you ask?

Some fixtures transcend the importance of the Allianz Football League and Sunday’s clash between Donegal and Tyrone is one such game.

A few weeks ago I got talking to a manager of a county football team. His team had made good progress playing a fine attacking style of football but in recent games had come unstuck against extreme massed defences, writes Kieran Shannon.

Students’ unions in Galway have distanced themselves from this week’s unofficial rag week celebrations, which, they stress, are being organised independently of either NUIG or GMIT.

Sylvester Hennessy crunches the numbers from the weekend’s big Allianz League games.

McKenna Cup

Ahead of the international trials in Ireland, Paul D’Alton goes sheep-herding with Con McGarry and his dog, Megan

As football game plans go for underdogs, this was almost utopian.

Sky Sports 3 show their first Sunday championship game this summer with the simulcast of the Kilkenny-Limerick All-Ireland SHC semi-final.

Jim Gavin believes the idea of semi-professional referees would jar with the GAA’s amateur ethos, but the Dublin manager has advocated using two referees in Gaelic football.

The Philadelphia 76ers couldn’t have picked a worse time to record their first win in 27 attempts.

Seeing as they’re the self-proclaimed forgotten county in Ireland, some might accuse Donegal folk of being paranoid.

Galway football has been dealt a massive blow with news that defender Colin Forde will miss their entire 2014 campaign after emigrating to England.

Donegal boss Jim McGuinness has told county board officials the local club championship will have to take a back seat if he is to remain in the job.

Celtic cook-off in West Cork

Highlights include John Creedon's retracing of Michael Collins's final day.

The Donegal-Down game last Sunday was another stark reminder, to those who care, that the game of Gaelic football is in big trouble. It has become ultra-defensive and the overriding philosophy seems to be to stop the opposition from playing and pick up the debris left to try eke out a low-scoring win.

An 18-year-old man killed in a car crash in which his twin sister was also hurt buried his best friend after another smash less than a year ago.

Highlights include Gay Byrne's interview with Bono, and Chris O'Dowd on the Graham Norton Show.

Among the 6,230 football followers who shook and rattled with the cold and rolled their eyes at the sub-standard fare in Tralee’s Austin Stack Park on Sunday, one question endured.

Clapping teams through a guard of honour, onto or off a gaelic pitch, is something very strange. While our rugby counterparts do it on a regular basis, it always looks out of place to me on a GAA pitch.

There is a real danger that some of the most creative players in today’s Gaelic football are becoming more and more peripheral, believes Dara O Cinnéide.

There are many reasons why it’s fitting Galway and Kilkenny will go to a replay now, one of them being that the hurling season will now outlast football’s.

A driver and co-driver were among those taken to hospital after a car-rally crash in Co Cavan that killed two spectators.

New Cavan senior boss Terry Hyland wasted no time in making changes to his senior panel, releasing six players last week and calling up six more.

RTÉ last night admitted the “current financial climate” is impacting on its highlights coverage of the Allianz Leagues.

ANOTHER potential embarrassment in the ugly controversy dividing Donegal GAA has been averted by Kevin Cassidy’s absence from a Sligo IT Sigerson Cup reunion on Saturday.

WHAT is it about this generation of Kerry player that their All-Ireland final appearances tend to get twinned with another?

Michael Murphy is on course to lead Donegal into battle for their All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Dublin on Sunday, August 28.

For the first time since 1998, the winners of the Ulster SFC title will not be either Tyrone or Armagh. The province's 'big two' have been outshone this summer by Donegal and Derry, who will contest the July 17 final.

THE Ulster Council have blamed the weather for the poor crowd that turned up in Ballybofey for the Donegal and Antrim clash on Sunday.

TITLE contenders in both the Citroen Irish Tarmac Championship and the Dulux Trade British Rally Championship face similar tasks on this weekend’s penultimate rounds of the series, that while featuring the same stages, headquarters and service halts, will run under two different names.

Dermot Molloy will join his Under-21 colleague Michael Murphy in the Donegal full-forward line for Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final against Down at Ballybofey (throw-in 2pm).

A number of families have been evacuated from their homes in Crolly in Co. Donegal following a fire last night.