‘On Sunday, we were the only story in town’

Jim McGuinness’ Donegal are content to let the media ‘puke football’ storm spin out while they focus on their next assignment, Cavan, says Alan Foley

Donegal’s Jim McGuinness on beating Antrim: “It felt like more like a defeat than a victory.”

IT’S Tuesday evening in Letterkenny at O’Donnell Park, the home of St Eunan’s GAA club. Jim McGuinness has arrived to talk football. For a long-time student of gaelic games and sports psychology, a six-point win against Antrim in the minefield province of Ulster should’ve been seen as a commendable championship debut. On Sunday, that spluttering 1-10 to 0-7 win was Donegal’s first in the Ulster championship in four years. Those losses were before McGuinness’s conscription as senior manager, but he was left to pick up the pieces.