Donegal win All Ireland Gaelic Football Championship

Donegal win All Ireland Gaelic Football Championship

Donegal 2-11
Mayo 0-13
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Donegal have been crowned All-Ireland champions for the first time in 20 years and for only the second time in their history following a four-point victory over Mayo.

Early goals from Michael Murphy and Colm McFadden left Mayo playing catch-up for the entire game in front of 82,269 spectators at a blustery Croke Park this afternoon. When McFadden fired home the winners' second goal in the 11th minute to give them a 2-1 to 0-0 cushion, it looked like a rout was on the cards, but to Mayo's credit, they never gave up the ghost and had cut Donegal's lead to three points, 2-4 to 0-7, by half-time.
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Jim McGuinness had just completed perhaps the great coaching journey of the modern era in Gaelic football an hour earlier, but when he walked into the post-match press conference it quickly became obvious that he had something on his mind.

The positivity that had radiated from him all season was absent as he fixed his stare on a stopwatch strapped to his arm, clearly gathering his thoughts. He rose from his chair and returned briefly to the ante room that links the TV interview area and the dressing-room corridor.

A representative from the Croke Park press office then re-entered to deliver a request from McGuinness to Declan Bogue, the Ulster-based journalist who had collaborated with Kevin Cassidy for the controversial book 'This Is Our Year' that led to Cassidy's removal from the squad last November, to leave the room. Only if his request was acceded to, it emerged, would he return to conduct any print media interviews.

When McGuinness re-entered the auditorium he gave the background to the request and why, after 10 months, he was now addressing the vexed issue of Cassidy's contribution and seeking the author's removal. Bogue had been to all of Donegal's post-match press conferences this summer without any disapproval from McGuinness and had even been to the Donegal media night in advance of the final three weeks earlier
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/furious-mcguinness-lets-rip-over-books-untruths-and-vile-articles-3239541.html