When Kerry GAA's special branch spotted Donegal spy out on a limb

Jim McGuinness, this weekend, returns to Fitzgerald Stadium, where a friend of the Donegal manager was spotted perched on a tree overlooking the stadium in 2014. 

Donegal manager Jim McGuinness suggested espionage was rife in the GAA previously. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Fitzgerald Stadium is a special place to Jim McGuinness.

When Donegal went down by double-scores (11 points), to Kerry in March 2012, five months before they reversed that result in an All-Ireland quarter-final and six prior to lifting the Sam Maguire Cup, he wasn’t too down in the dumps.