Obituary: ‘Pat Shovelin was forever positive no matter what the situation’

Alan Foley’s tribute to Pat Shovelin, goalkeeping coach to Donegal’s senior footballers.

WHEN Jim McGuinness began planning his backroom team, having been appointed as the manager of Donegal seniors ahead of the coldest of cold winters in 2010, there was one characteristic he insisted upon.

“I wanted a backroom team of people not so much with decades of football experience but with an innately positive attitude,” he later would write in ‘Until Victory Always: A Memoir’.