Naomh Conaill (Donegal) 1-11 Trillick (Tyrone) 2-9: Tyrone champions Trillick hung on for dear life as they pipped Donegal’s Naomh Conaill in the AIB Ulster Club Championship quarter-final in Ballybofey yesterday.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Naomh Conaill 0-11 St Eunan’s 0-10: Naomh Conaill of Glenties captured a third Donegal SFC title with victory over St Eunan’s of Letterkenny in a peculiar final in Ballybofey yesterday.

I have the following correspondence from the late Brian Friel through my association with the Glenties Drama Group:

It took more than a half- century of whole-hearted commitment but finally Letterkenny has won the title of the country’s Tidiest Town.

The RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC was in a state of limbo last night as an appeal by Naomh Conaill into the result of Sunday’s semi-final was being discussed by the Competitions’ Control Committee.

The RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC final will be a local derby next Sunday with Glenswilly and St Eunan’s of Letterkenny winning their respective semi-finals.

Jim McGuinness has revealed that he always planned to step down as Donegal manager after the 2014 Championship, regardless of whether they won it or not.

Brian Cody has avoided suspension for comments about referee Barry Kelly in the wake of Kilkenny’s All-Ireland hurling final replay win over Tipperary last month.

The Donegal SFC began with a bang this weekend with Kilcar defeating the 2013 champions Glenswilly.

It’s a Wednesday evening and the main street in Ardara is quiet.

At the time, it was labelled the night of the long knives. Brian McIver’s status as Donegal senior team manager wasn’t even on the agenda at the September 2008 sitting of county committee; he was just in Ballybofey to give his annual report.

Malin turned the Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC on its head with a spectacular win over champions St Eunan’s in Buncrana on Saturday night.

The Donegal County Board have confirmed this evening that Jim McGuinness will be in charge of the county's senior footballers for the 2014 season

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.

Cillian O’Connor is all but certain to miss Mayo’s All-Ireland final on September 22 after being forced off with an injury to his already suspect right shoulder yesterday.

Donegal football manager Jim McGuinness has denied reports suggesting that he has agreed to stay on for the final season of his four-year managerial term.

I listened to Enda Kenny at the opening of the Macgill Summer School in Glenties, recently and was pleasantly surprised and impressed.

The Donegal County Board are 'hopeful' that Jim McGuinness and his management team will remain in charge of the county's footballers as McGuinness takes time out to consider his immediate future.

Jim McGuinness would not be drawn on his future as Donegal manager following yesterday’s seismic defeat.

There were some big casualties in the Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC at the weekend in its first season using first round groups.

Jim McGuinness wasn’t prepared to take his new post at Celtic if it impacted on his role as Donegal manager.

Before gaelic football became gaelic fistball, under-age coaches used to continually inform their young charges that “the ball moves faster than the man”.

All-Ireland-winning Donegal manager Jim McGuinness has questioned the reasoning behind the setting up of the Football Review Committee (FRC).

The biggest cheer at Croke Park yesterday was reserved for victorious manager Jim McGuinness, who was hailed by Michael Murphy as the man who brought Sam Maguire back to Donegal after a 20-year absence.

Will Cork be remembered as the only team in modern GAA history to exit the Championship without conceding a goal?

Charlie Collins, the voice of Donegal’s Highland Radio on the day he played against Mickey Harte, a near-death experience and a Semple nightmare.

Donegal were not ruthless enough when beating Cavan yesterday, according to manager Jim McGuinness.

It’s the stepping stone. The launch pad. The shout to the top.

Phillip Neary showed composure that wouldn’t be out of place in the Nivea for Men SuperLeague as his last-gasp basket helped St Vincent’s claim U19C All-Ireland Schools Cup glory yesterday.

EVER since his comments about their ugly win over Antrim, Pat Spillane hasn’t exactly been flavour of the month in Donegal.

DONEGAL men are a traditional bunch. This is more than a flippant opinion.

MICHAEL MURPHY’S absence from training this week means the Donegal skipper is the prime concern ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Kildare at Croke Park.

HE WAS in the terraces in Clones on a sodden July Sunday in 1998, when Derry and Donegal last squared off in a Ulster decider.

A WELL-informed Donegal man told me earlier in the year why Jim McGuinness might struggle to succeed as manager of his native county.

“TYPICAL Crossmaglen” was the refrain that carried on the chilly Cavan air yesterday afternoon.

ULSTER GAA chiefs are concerned that another postponement of their provincial football final would spark even more fixture chaos, according to officials.

The provincial club Football Championships got underway in Ulster and Connacht today, while there was also plenty of county football final action across the country.

There was county football final action in Donegal, Derry, Fermanagh, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow and London today, while Kilmallock claimed the lone Senior Hurling championship title on offer.

Jim McGuinness was last night ratified as Donegal's new senior football manager, after he had been nominated unopposed for the position.

THE expensive transfer of state assets from nationalised Anglo Irish Bank to NAMA was branded “bizarre” by one of the country’s leading financial experts last night.

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).

Donegal football manager Brian McIver is planning for the 2008 season without Paddy Campbell in mind after the full-back revealed to him that he has played his last inter-county game.