Donegal 3-19 Antrim 1-9: With the wheels of change evident in Donegal, there was further evidence of its forward trajectory at Ballybofey yesterday.

Eamon McGee admits he and his brother Neil were unwilling to sign a public statement suggested by the Donegal panel to back manager Jim McGuinness in the wake of the fallout with former star, Kevin Cassidy, in 2011.

This evening’s clash at the RDS will be Pat Lam’s 98th in charge of Connacht and it is safe to say that he still has little difficulty coming up with a cause for his men each time they go out.

Peadar Healy ventured up to Clones the day after his Cork charges limped out of Pearse Park with their championship status still intact. The Cork football manager couldn’t but be impressed with Donegal’s first-half showing, even more impressed was he with Tyrone’s second-half display. Tyrone did, in Healy’s own words, a Donegal on Donegal.

Neil McGee believes Donegal have more depth than at any other time in the previous five seasons under Jim McGuinness and Rory Gallagher.

Peadar Healy was in no mood for sympathy having seen his team outplayed for the vast majority of yesterday’s round two Division 1 game in Fr Tierney Park.

Next year’s Congress is likely to vote on a motion upgrading a dive from a yellow card to a black or red card offence in the wake of the Tiernan McCann case.

Mark McHugh insists Donegal’s stable of veteran stars won’t make any snap retirement decisions.

Donegal 0-11 Mayo 2-13: The perception that Donegal’s powers are on the decline will skew the prism through which this game is viewed, but Mayo’s All-Ireland quarter-final victory on Saturday evening owed as much to their own strengths as to the weaknesses of others.

Leaders are neither born nor made; they are found. This is what Ben Horowitz postulated in a recent Fortune.com article.

Rory Gallagher brought an end to the Jim McGuinness era when masterminding Donegal’s nine-point hammering of Armagh in the Ulster quarter-final, according to Brendan Devenney.

Over 200km and a chasm in competitiveness separated Mayo’s defeat of Mayo and Donegal’s destruction of Armagh last Sunday afternoon but in the performances of Aidan O’Shea and Michael Murphy, there was at least one common thread.

Armagh 0-8 Donegal 2-11: There was a time when it was Donegal who were the hopeless romantics and Armagh the dealers in dashed dreams, but those roles have long been reversed and never more so than yesterday afternoon in this lopsided Ulster quarter-final.

Even though he’s been around the block and on the sidelines for three of the last four years with Donegal, manager Rory Gallagher will be giddy with anticipation ahead of this game, writes Dara Ó Cinnéide.

The absence of a clinical finisher in front of goal cost Donegal a third league win, according to manager Rory Gallagher.

Kerry 2-13 Donegal 2-11

UCC 0-13 IT Sligo 0-8

Allianz FL Division 1 Round 2: Dublin 2-10 Donegal 0-11: It’s only a couple of weeks since Karl Lacey sat down with the media and talked about Donegal’s evolving style of play under Rory Gallagher.

Allianz FL Division 1 (R2): Dublin v Donegal: Those of us who had written Donegal out of the list of championship contenders before a ball was kicked in anger this year might have been premature.

Donegal 1-15 Derry 0-12: Allianz Football League Division 1: When Rory Gallagher was appointed Donegal manager on Halloween night, the All-Ireland final loss to Kerry was still fresh in his players’ thoughts.

McKenna Cup

Winning the Six Nations, climbing to third in the world. Of course the Ireland rugby coach is manager of the year. Until you start examining the criteria for truly great team management.

Pat Lam is aiming to do what no other Connacht coach has managed and come away from the RDS with a victory on Friday.

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

To justly appreciate the phenomenon that has been Jim McGuinness’s tenure with Donegal it would be an idea to ponder this question: in which of his four years in charge do you think he’s done the best coaching job?

To find out how a club with just 300 playing members will have five players on active duty in Sunday’s All-Ireland finals, go back to 1979.

Mark McHugh has revealed how he agonised over his decision to quit Donegal and weighed up the prospect of walking away from an All-Ireland medal.

Donegal’s remarkable 3-14 to 0-17 victory over Dublin in the All-Ireland semi-final is the biggest shock in Gaelic football for a decade, according to Kevin McStay.

By Peter O’Dwyer

Brian McEniff fancies Jim McGuinness on Sunday to make up for the last time he faced Jim Gavin in Championship football.

Kevin Cassidy has described Jim McGuinness’ comparison of Dublin with Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea as "silly".

If there’s any bad blood going into Clones on Sunday, it surrounds Stephen Gollogly’s tackle on Mark McHugh in last year’s Ulster final.

Donegal captain Michael Murphy is not surprised in the slightest that Jim McGuinness is a man in demand at Celtic.

Parades, bands, flags.

Eamon McGee is glad Donegal’s win over Derry has silenced their detractors at least for now.

The GAA have been hit by a second black card controversy in as many weeks after yesterday’s Ulster quarter-final in Derry.

Derry look to carry impressive league form into championship meeting with old rivals Donegal tomorrow.

After clocking his fastest ever time at the Isle of Man TT, a BBC reporter conducted an interview with the late Joey Dunlop.

Former Donegal footballer Kevin Cassidy has speculated that Mark McHugh may have quit the county’s panel as a result of Rory Gallagher’s departure or due to a worsening relationship with manager Jim McGuinness.

Paul Durcan believes Mark McHugh’s surprise decision to quit the Donegal panel is far from a permanent parting of the ways.