It’s not often golf takes precedence over Gaelic games for me but this was an exception — and oh what an exception.

A last gasp Michael Murphy free levelled this game for a 15th and final time in a cracking Super 8, Round 2 game.

Hugh McFadden believes the championing of the likes of Donegal and Sunday’s opponents Kerry as the main rivals to Dublin’s throne is merely something the media latch on to.

Donegal were 9-point winners against Meath at the sun-kissed Ballybofey, although the scoreboard only tells half the story of a gripping contest.

Donegal waltzed back to the top flight of the Allianz League with a comprehensive 13-point win over a listless Kildare at Fr Tierney Park in Ballyshannon yesterday.

With Cork unable to do themselves any favours on Saturday, it was the unintentional goodwill of others that has them still in with a slim chance of avoiding the drop.

Donegal’s fourth league win of the spring has kept alive their promotion bid, while, in the process, moving Cork perilously closer to the relegation trapdoor.

Stephen Rochford’s pathway from Mayo to Donegal wasn’t exactly straightforward.

Declan Bonner, the Donegal manager, commended the resolve shown by his young side as they came from four points down late on to overcame Meath in a frost-bitten Ballybofey on Saturday night.

As much as Clare have progressed and consolidated under the masterful watch of Colm Collins, they’ve developed a regrettable tendency to foil glorious chances to nail a big trophy head upon the wall.

Donegal 1-16 Kildare 3-7: Donegal’s poorest performance of Division 1 this term was still enough to post a first win, at Kildare’s expense.

Kerry 2-18 Donegal 3-14: Ironic isn’t it that followers of the green and gold poured in to catch the first glimpse of David Clifford at senior level and yet departed celebrating a different DC.

MacRory Cup: The opening quarter-final in the Danske Bank MacRory Cup ended in a stalemate after Omagh CBS and Abbey CBS couldn’t be separated in a low scoring affair at the Dub, Belfast.

DRAMA in Walsh Park yesterday as visitors Na Piarsaigh of Limerick hammered three late goals past Waterford champions Ballygunner to book a place in the Munster club SHC final.

Na Piarsaigh swept Ballygunner aside with a stunning second half display in today’s AIB Munster Club SHC semi-final at Walsh Park.

“WE made it harder for ourselves than was necessary.”

WEXFORD side St Martin’s sit top of Group A in Division 3 of the Féile Peil na nÓg, going into today’s deciding fixtures, having registered two victories in the opening round of matches at Whitechurch yesterday.

A MAN and woman who face charges connected to the death of model Katy French have been sent forward for trial at the circuit court next month.

UNLESS you’re in a situation where the protagonists are regular winners of their own county titles, and thus meet thereafter on a fairly regular basis, trying to predict what’s going to happen in a provincial club final is pretty much an impossible business.

BALLYGUNNER have an injury-free squad to choose from as they wind down their preparations for Sunday’s Munster Club hurling semi-final with Clarecastle at Walsh Park.

PLAGUED by injury for several months, Paul Flynn is poised to take his place in Ballygunner’s starting line up for Sunday’s Waterford senior hurling final against De La Salle.

FOR the fifth time in six years, arch-rivals Mount Sion and Ballygunner meet in the Waterford SHC final at Walsh Park tomorrow.