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.

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Naomh Conaill may appeal their defeat by Glenswilly in the RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC semi-final to the Ulster Hearings Committee.

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.

Two days after the 2005 Donegal SFC final, Jim McGuinness gathered Naomh Conaill’s panel together in the shadow of Davy Brennan Memorial Park’s stand in Glenties.

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.

Corofin (Galway) 2-6 St Gall’s (Antrim) 1-8

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

This is the face of a young GAA star after he was attacked during a game.

Donegal’s GAA clubs have been given until December 31 to claim back a refund for a levy imposed by the Co Board on All-Ireland final tickets – but many clubs in the county are set to waive the right.

New Donegal senior football champions St Eunan’s of Letterkenny paid an emotional farewell to a much-loved club member who died at the weekend.

St Eunan’s 1-07 Naomh Conaill 0-09

The Donegal SFC semi-finals went according to the form book over the weekend and the final will be between arguably the best two sides in the county — St Eunan’s of Letterkenny and Glenties’ Naomh Conaill.

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.

An angry Jim McGuinness believes politicians in Donegal have given Mayo motivational ammunition ahead of the counties’ September 23 All-Ireland final.

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’s Leo McLoone spent a large part of last year out through injury, but the versatile Naomh Conaill clubman led from the front at Dangan yesterday as last year’s runners-up booked their place in the last four of the Sigerson Cup.

DONEGAL county chairman PJ McGowan has warned his clubs he will segregate supporters because of continued indiscipline if the matter is not addressed.

CROSSMAGLEN joint-manager Tony McEntee has warned the best is yet to come from his side.

HIS county may have won six of the last seven Leinster SFC titles but Pat Gilroy believes that the provincial championships have had their day and should be replaced by a more equitable system.

ON Sunday he will battle to book Donegal’s berth in the All-Ireland senior football final and defender Anthony Thompson will be able to reflect proudly on his own role in shaping the development of some of the county’s young talents.

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.

DONEGAL’S preparations for the All-Ireland quarter-finals have been dealt a blow with Dermot ‘Brick’ Molloy facing six weeks on thesideline after picking up a knee injury.

DONEGAL’S 1992 All-Ireland winning manager Brian McEniff has called on the county board to act swiftly on indiscipline in club matches or risk players suffering more serious injuries than Leo McLoone’s broken eye socket.

The Donegal Competitions Control Committee are poised to launch a full investigation into an incident in a club match which left Leo McLoone with a double fracture of his eye socket.

THE return to training of Leo McLoone on Saturday is a boost to Donegal’s Ulster championship prospects ahead of Sunday’s quarter-final against Cavan.

DONEGAL debutant Dermot Molloy’s first taste of championship football whetted the appetite before his summer was cut short.

JOGGING Jamie Clarke’s memory for his earliest Crossmaglen All-Ireland winning memory shouldn’t be too much of a stretch. Now 21, he saw them collect the Andy Merrigan Cup just once during his teenage years. The rest should be hazier in his mind.

Donegal star Leo McLoone has broken his leg while on duty for his club, Naomh Conaill, in a Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta games on Sunday.

DONEGAL’S league and championship hopes have been dealt a blow with the news that centre-back Leo McLoone has broken a leg in a club game.

IT’S not well known outside Ulster but Oisín McConville is gaining a growing reputation as a pundit who calls games right. Writing a column in a Belfast-based Sunday newspaper, his record of picking winners is impressive.

BRIAN KAVANAGH has admitted that Kilmacud Crokes may benefit most from the Leinster Council’s decision to push back Sunday’s provincial club finals to January.

LEINSTER COUNCIL officials will decide today whether the weekend’s senior hurling and football provincial finals can proceed as planned.

PROVINCIAL chiefs will be praying for a rapid improvement in the weather after the weekend’s cold snap created fixtures chaos in Leinster and Ulster.

Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) 1-11 Burren (Down) 2-7

THE fact that Naomh Conaill’s base in Glenties is over two hours from Coalisland’s complex adjacent to Lough Neagh means their Tyrone opponents are a largely unknown force to the men from the west coast of Donegal.

ARMAGH champions Crossmaglen Rangers dumped the reigning Ulster and All-Ireland champions, St. Gall’s, out of the running for successive titles with a brilliant 1-12 to 0-9 point win at Oliver Plunkett Park.

Defending All-Ireland Club champions St. Gall's crashed out of the 2010/11 title race this afternoon, as Crossmaglen Rangers, Coalisland and Naomh Conaill came through the Ulster Club SFC quarter-finals.

St. Eunan's 0-13 Naomh Conaill 0-7

Donegal manager Brian McIver has made an earlier than expected team announcement for Sunday's NFL Division One final against Mayo at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

It is a big day of GAA club action with football dominating, but hurling is also on the agenda.