General Jimmy leads from the front

If Celtic Football Club wants to improve their jersey sales in Donegal, they might have to give Jim McGuinness an offer he can’t refuse.

A total of 3,018 children registered for the 36 GAA summer camps which were held across the county during the holidays. A county official, who was at every camp, reckons that approximately 3,000 of those children wore Donegal jerseys.

‘So what?’ says you. ‘What’s the big deal?’ Well, in Donegal, it is a cause for celebration. A few years ago, Celtic jerseys were the preferred choice of Donegal’s discerning underage stars. Before Jim McGuinness became senior manager, up to half the children at those camps wore hoops.