Donegal club to answer ‘illegal tournament’ charge after holding soccer fundraising competition

Naomh Colmcille will go before the Donegal Hearings Committee tonight for having a fundraising soccer competition on their grounds for a club member who has been diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease.

A soccer competition, which was not arranged by the club but instead a fundraising committee headed by local councilor Paul Canning in the village between Letterkenny and Derry with a population of 1,500, was held at Pairc Colmcille’s second pitch in Newtowncunningham in February for 45-year-old Paul Dillon, a local butcher who played senior football and coached underage at the club.