Donegal boss all about ‘positivity’

Allow Colm Parkinson, if you will, a told-you-so.

Donegal boss all about ‘positivity’
Thu, 02 Aug, 2012 - 01:00
John Fogarty

“For the 10 years before he took over Donegal, I was saying that Jimmy McGuinness would be an outstanding manager.”

You can believe him. The former Laois forward got to know McGuinness as a fellow student at Tralee IT where they won a Sigerson Cup together in 1999. Except to Parkinson, the then 26-year-old Glenties man was more than just that.

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