Donegal set to give keeper championship debut

Eleven years have passed since Donegal gave a goalkeeper a debut in the championship.

In Ballybofey on Sunday when Fermanagh roll into town, Rory Gallagher will hand to number one jersey to a first-timer: Either Mark Anthony McGinley or Peter Boyle.

McGinley kept goal for UCD in the League of Ireland and made his first inter-county appearance against Dublin in March on his 26th birthday, while Boyle — who featured in Jim McGuinnness’s first league match against Sligo in 2011 — wasn’t even in the panel for the Dr McKenna Cup, but was first choice by the time the league started.