McElhinney misses DCU's Royal Rout

McElhinney misses DCU's Royal RoutStudents' boss Niall Moyna launched a scathing attack on Donegal manager Jim McGuinness after star midfielder Martin McElhinney was forced to miss this semi-final tie against Meath on sat 21 Jan 2012
Moyna claimed that McElhinney was threatened with expulsion from the Donegal county panel if he didn't make himself available for a challenge match earlier in the day.
"He's one of our key players and we may not have him for the Sigerson now," said Moyna. "We only knew at 5.15pm when the bus was leaving that he wouldn't be playing."

McElhinney is also a member of the DCU squad which has reached the O'Byrne Cup final and which will shortly be in action in the Sigerson Cup.
McElhinney injured his ankle in the warm-up for the challenge game and was unable to play for Donegal or for DCU against Meath in the O'Byrne Cup semi-final on Saturday night.

Jim McGuinness has hit back at claims by DCU boss Niall Moyna that he mistreated a Donegal player by insisting that he turned up for a challenge game last Saturday.

"It's pure nonsense. We weren't the ones who switched dates -- that happened when the O'Byrne Cup semi-final was brought forward from Sunday to Saturday," said McGuinness.
"The colleges have the players from October, while the county managers don't get them until Jan1"

"Counties are asked to play without the college players in January, which means the counties have very few days when they can get their full squad together for a National Leaguethat starts in February."