Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

DONEGAL TO CONSIDER APPEALING MCGEE RED

- BY ORLA BANNON

DECLAN Bonner insisted he didn’t see the incident which led to Neil Mcgee (above) seeing red but hinted Donegal will consider an appeal depending on TV footage.

“The allegation is he put two knees in. I didn’t see it but we will be looking at the video,” he said.

“Neil is an experience­d player and has achieved so much and it would be a huge disappoint­ment for him to miss out on an Ulster final, but we’ll analyse it and take it from there.”

The win tees up a reunion between Donegal and their former boss Rory Gallagher when he takes Fermanagh into the final on June 24.

Bonner knows Gallagher’s mean Erne defence will be a far greater challenge than anything they’ve faced in the campaign to date.

“We can only look after our end of it and I’m sure Rory will look after his end of it,” he added. “It makes for an exciting couple of weeks in the build-up and it’s a great place to be,

Clones on Ulster final day. That’s where every player wants to be.”

Eamonn Burns felt Down’s disastrous kickouts put his team under all sorts of pressure.

He said: “A good start would have been very helpful for us to get our confidence up, then we had difficulty getting the kick-outs away, which became a bit of a chore for us. They controlled everything.”

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