Donegal gain momentum

Antrim 0-12 Donegal 3-16

The jury will remain out on Donegal’s candidacy for ultimate honours this summer, but Jim McGuinness’s men went a considerable way towards reestablishing themselves as Ulster’s main movers and shakers, in Clones yesterday.

This victory over Antrim ensured Donegal’s spot in the provincial decider for the fourth straight season. Not even Armagh or Tyrone managed that in the not-so-distant past, when the balance of power up North swung between those two strongholds.