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Half-time report: Donegal lead Tyrone in McKenna Cup final after blistering first half

written by Chris McNulty February 17, 2018
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DONEGAL HAVE MADE a fine start to the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup final at the Athletic Grounds in Armagh.

Declan Bonner’s team are 1-9 to 1-6 up at the break.

Daire Ó Baoill, due to line out for his club Gaoth Dobhair in the final of the Bank of Ireland U21 Club Football Tournament Paddy McLarnon Cup tomorrow, made an excellent start on his first Donegal start with two points.

On eight minutes, the net would bristle for the first time. Tyrone’s Harry Loughnan got in between a couple of Donegal defenders following a Conal McCann ball in and stabbed past Shaun Patton in the Donegal goal.

That made the score 1-4 to 1-2 for Mickey Harte’s side but only two minutes later, Martin McElhinney won the race to a throughball from Odhrán Mac Niallais and, from the ground too, dinked over the advancing Mickey O’Neill in the Tyrone goal.

With Donegal in the ascendancy, Paul Brennan, Mac Niallais and Martin O’Reilly added scores for a 1-7 to 1-2 lead by the 15th minute. But when Donegal began to miscue – hitting three wides in succession and Darren McCurry and Ronan O’Neill scoring for a Tyrone team who began to filter men back, it was getting closer.

With Frank McGlynn, on his first appearance of 2018, popping over, only for O’Neill to post a free at the other end, Donegal are 1-9 to 1-6 in front at half-time time.

 

Half-time report: Donegal lead Tyrone in McKenna Cup final after blistering first half was last modified: February 17th, 2018 by Chris McNulty
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Chris McNulty

Author of 'Boxing In Donegal: A History (2021)' - the definitive history of the sport in County Donegal - and 'Relentless: A Race Through Time', the 2019 memoir of former Irish Athletics Team Manager Patsy McGonagle. From St Johnston and now based in Letterkenny, Chris was a nominee for NUJ Sports Journalist of the Year in 2010. Honoured by the Donegal Boxing Board in 2016 for his coverage on the sport.

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