Kavanagh hoping for a new beginning for Donegal

CONTROVERSY off the pitch and poor performances on it have made it a season to forget thus far for Donegal but captain Rory Kavanagh is hopeful the county can turn over a new leaf starting with Antrim this Sunday.

Donegal has never been shy of airing its dirty linen in public and that was taken to a new extreme last October when the race for the vacant manager’s chair descended into farce and recrimination.

John Joe Doherty wanted it. So too did the joint ticket of Charlie Mulgrew and Declan Bonner, but what should have been a straightforward case of ‘either or’ descended into a farcical circus. A motion of no confidence in the county board was proposed at one point and Mulgrew and Bonner even threatened to take their case to the Disputes Resolution Authority. It was a new low, even for Donegal.