Determined Donegal finally live the dream

A COUPLE of dubious penalty calls, one given to Donegal and one not awarded against them, shouldn’t and won’t sully the county’s first provincial title in 19 years.

Even if Maurice Deegan hadn’t deemed Michael that Murphy was upended in the parallelogram in the 37th minute, even if he had adjudged Emmett McGuckin was fouled in Donegal’s danger area seven minutes from the end, one feels the score-line still would have read in favour of Jim McGuinness’ side.

While the teams were matched evenly at half-time, Donegal returned to action the more energised, the more focused and the more intent. They are never going to blow teams out of the water, this Donegal team.