Donegal go on the offensive

DONEGAL County Board have lashed out at critics of their negative football after taking their first Ulster title since 1992 and reaching an All-Ireland semi-final.

County secretary Aodh Mairtín Ó Fearaigh slammed “so-called pundits” who said the Ulster champions where playing “Shiite football” in a hard-hitting report to county convention in Ballybofey on December 14.

Ó Fearaigh branded the sustained criticism as “harsh and indeed hateful and indeed gave no credit to the huge effort put in by the team and the management since the start of the year.