McGuinness’s Donegal backroom team ‘close to completion’

Jim McGuinness expects to have his new Donegal backroom team in place in the coming days.

However, the 2012 All-Ireland winning manager, speaking in his capacity as a judge for the Arthur Guinness Projects, declined to discuss the sequence of events that saw Rory Gallagher and Maxi Curran depart their roles with the county last week.

A county board statement at the time confirmed what it claimed was McGuinness’ intention to make changes to his management team — just days after it was confirmed that he would himself stay on.