The lid was flipped. The usually unruffled Brian McEniff had blown his right off.

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

It was the day Donegal’s ‘likeable losers’ tag stuck.

It must be the northern air. It must be something. What else can explain the way successful managers are treated at the tip of the country?

ULSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

Ask Brian McEniff if a Jim McGuinness-style contract would have worked 10 years ago and he digests the question.

It’s official! Met Éireann figures prove that while the rest of us got drenched all summer, Donegal was bathed in sun, says Paddy Clancy

Around about halfway through their respective 11-year inter-county careers to date, Colm McFadden and Rory Kavanagh started spending evenings in the gym at Letterkenny Community Centre.

Clubowners in a price war in Bundoran, Co Donegal, were accused yesterday of believing they were “above the law”.

Louth team advisor Brian McEniff has wholeheartedly endorsed Peter Fitzpatrick’s assessment of Dublin as “a machine“.

A lawyer has said a price war between rival bar-owning cousins, with one selling cocktails for as little as 50c and another offering as much as customers could drink for €20, was in danger of putting a teenager in the morgue.

Tyrone easily brushed aside Donegal’s challenge in last night’s Ulster U21 FC quarter-final.

The disagreement between Donegal manager Jim McGuinness and axed defender Kevin Cassidy is such that the All-Star feels that he has played his last inter-county game.

LOUTH footballers have received a huge boost with the news that Brian McEniff will play a more significant role for the Wee County in 2012.

A WOMAN who saw a teenager fall 40 feet to his death said she at first thought she was looking at a plummeting parcel.

BRIAN McENIFF has crunched the numbers and come up with a bottom line figure, 14 points.

OFTEN the measure of a team is not by how it wins or how often it wins but by how it loses.

HARD to believe that Fermanagh are still waiting! It didn’t happen for Down until 1959 and it took a further 13 years before Donegal made the breakthrough.

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.

BRIAN McENIFF enjoyed a long a fruitful managerial career with Donegal, Sligo, Ulster and Ireland before stepping back into a well-earned retirement but the 1992 All-Ireland winning coach has returned to the sidelines in recent weeks with Louth.

FORMER Tipperary chairman John Costigan revealed that “one of the best discussions the county board has had this year” took place in Thurles before delegates gave the interim agreement a resounding thumbs up.

BUNDORAN councillor Sean McEniff takes great umbrage at the description of his beloved town as “one of Ireland’s tackiest holiday resorts” and he believes the author who wrote about Bundoran never actually visited the town.

Ulster manager Brian McEniff has selected his strongest possible line-up - given injuries and club commitments - for tomorrow's M Donnelly Interprovincial football semi-final against Connacht at Ballybofey, throw-in 8pm.

DESPITE giving an admirable account of themselves, Shelbourne, the former giants of Irish football, couldn’t turn giant killers at Tolka Park, as a first half Roy O’Donovan penalty was enough to see Cork City through to the next round of the FAI Ford Cup.

COMPETITION sponsor Martin Donnelly has admitted he could lose interest in the Interpovincial championships if club fixtures “are not sorted out”.

Long-serving Ulster football manager Brian McEniff is hoping luck will be on his side tomorrow when county championship finals take place in Derry, Down and Tyrone.

Donegal legend Brian McEniff will continue as manager of the Ulster team for the 2006 M Donnelly Interprovincial Football Championship.

Donegal legend Brian McEniff will continue as manager of the Ulster team for the 2006 M Donnelly Interprovincial Football Championship.

IAWS chief executive Owen Killian has joined the growing list of top bosses earning more than €1 million a year.

The Chairman of North West Tourism, Sean McEniff, said today he is considering taking legal action against Met Éireann over what he claimed to be inaccurate weather forecasts.

Tyrone trio Sean Cavanagh, Brian Dooher and Stephen O'Neill will be back in the yellow and black colours of Ulster on Saturday.

Ulster 2-13 Munster 0-9

Champions Ulster have included eight debutants in their side for Sunday's Martin Donnelly & Co. Interprovincial semi-final tie with Munster.

BRIAN McENIFF, who will again manager Ulster in the upcoming inter-provincial football competition, is remaining coy about the possibility of him taking over in Mayo from John Maughan.

Former Donegal boss Brian McEniff and ex-Derry supremo Mickey Moran have been invited to attend interviews next week for the vacant Mayo senior football manager's position.

Brian McIver was last night confirmed as the new manager of the Donegal footballers, ending weeks of speculation.

Brian McEniff has ended the worst-kept secret in Ulster football and parted company as manager of Donegal.

Donegal manager Brian McEniff, the man who led the Tir Chonaill men to the holy grail of a first All-Ireland title back in 1992, is on the verge of quitting the inter-county scene.

Donegal manager Brian McEniff has named Eamonn McGee in his side for Sunday's SFC qualifier against Cavan, after the Sligo IT defender's leg responded well to intensive physiotherapy.

Wicklow 0-12 Donegal 0-16

Donegal manager Brian McEniff has made no changes to his side ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland SFC qualifier date with Wicklow.

Armagh manager Joe Kernan and Donegal boss Brian McEniff have been suspended from pitchside for their next championship clashes.