Donegal plea for jobs for the boys

THE RECESSION is clearly beginning to bite, with Donegal senior football manager John Joe Doherty pleading with local employers to give his players jobs.

Doherty says Donegal may lose five of their top footballers, who will all be unemployed by the beginning of next month: Barry Dunnion, Christy Toye, Ciaran Bonnar and Kevin McMenamin are all out of work at the moment, while midfielder Brendan Boyle’s contract as an engineer with Donegal County Council won’t be renewed next month.

Doherty also worries that students on his panel may go abroad to seek summer employment: