Neil Lennon: McGuinness has Donegal a step from Paradise

When we took Jim over to Celtic, there was a lot of pressure on him writes Neil Lennon

How it would affect his management of Donegal and what would come first? There was a lot of talk that he couldn’t do both. We decided Donegal would come first, and he would work predominantly with the younger players at the club.

If he wasn’t so committed to his county, of course, he would have had a bigger role with us. The problem was I didn’t want him to be in the line of fire and getting criticism that he wasn’t giving his all to Donegal and giving too much to Celtic.