Full house on home patch sounds like heaven

It may only be late May, but the howls of anguish over the ticket drought in Donegal ahead of Sunday’s Ulster SFC game with Tyrone have decorated the All-Ireland’s earlier stages with a soundtrack that has rarely, if ever, been heard before the kids trudge back to school in September.

Full house on home patch sounds like heaven

All winter, the debate over the venue for this game has dragged on. Clones, with its greater capacity and traditions of hosting anything approaching the status of a ‘big’ match up north, was championed by supporters in both counties and beyond, yet MacCumhaill Park in Ballybofey it is.

The stampede to decry the decision was all too predictable.

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