Maxi Curran’s Under 21 Donegal team booked a place in the Ulster Final after a superb battling display against Derry at Healy Park.
Goals from Caolan Ward and Odran MacNiallais put daylight between the two sides.
Senior star Patrick McBrearty also chipped in with five points to put Donegal into their third final in just four years.
Donegal will now face Cavan in the final.
Credit to Derry as they battled right until the final whistle and were unlucky to be eventually beaten 2-11 to 0-15.
Derry dominated for spells but Donegal came much more into the game in the second half.
Indeed had Ryan Bell’s fine effort in the last minute been a few inches lower it could have won the tie for Derry instead of crashing off the Donegal crossbar.
A venue for the final has yet to be decided but it is understood the game will be played next Wednesday.
Teams
Donegal: Peter Boyle; Kevin McFadden, Caolan Ward, Pauric Carr; Eoin McHugh, Martin O’Reilly, Eoin McHugh; Leon Kelly, Ciaran Cannon; Luke Keaney, Patrick McBrearty, Gavin Gallagher; William Gillespie, Odhrán MacNiallais, Conor Gibbons. Subs: Darach O’Connor for Gillespie, Conor Parke for Cannon, Christopher Barrett for Carr.
Derry – Christopher Bradley; Gareth McKinless, Peter Quinn, Declan Brow; Karl McTeague, Conor McAtamney, Joe Morgan; Kieran Conway, Ryan Dougan; Nathan Rocks, Ryan Bell, Ciaran McFaul; Fintan Bell, Aaron Devlin, Christopher Spiers. Conor Kearns for Morgan, Martin McCloskey for Brown, Shea McGuigan for Bell, Roddy O’Kane for Dougan and Rocks.