Eamonn Doherty’s return home earns him greater role for Donegal

Donegal defender Eamonn Doherty is on the verge of transforming domestic success with his club side St Eunan’s of Letterkenny into championship appearances for his native county.

Despite being aged only 24, Doherty is one of the most decorated players in the north-west having played in five victorious RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC winning St Eunan’s teams, taking the Dr Maguire Cup back to the cathedral town in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014. In the first of those years, Doherty was still a county minor and had a ringside seat for the senior match afterwards, the Ulster SFC quarter-final in Ballybofey.

Donegal fluked a 1-9 to 1-8 win over Joe Kernan’s Armagh when Paul Hearty in the visitors’ goal fluffed a dropping shot from Doherty’s St Eunan’s clubmate, Brendan Devenney.