{"id":284672,"date":"2026-01-14T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:30:07","slug":"donegal-and-monaghan-set-to-contest-dr-mckenna-cup-final-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284672\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal and Monaghan set to contest Dr McKenna Cup final \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DONEGAL and Monaghan will contest this season\u2019s Dr McKenna Cup final as both come through their respective semi-finals this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A superb second half showing from Jim McGuinness\u2019s men allowed them to power past their hosts Derry, who had led for the majority of the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Monaghan\u2019s Miche\u00e1l Bannigan gave a man of the match performance and hit the net as his side overcame Malachy O\u2019Rourke\u2019s Tyrone at Inniskeen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saturday\u2019s showdown will be a repeat of the 2022 final, which the Farney men won 1-11 to 0-13. Donegal, who also lost the 2024 decider to Derry, are aiming to get their hands on the trophy for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DONEGAL and Monaghan will contest this season\u2019s Dr McKenna Cup final as both come through their respective semi-finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[10417,11795,17159,18,19,17,64890,132,29228,108678],"class_list":["post-284672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-derry-gaa","tag-donegal-gaa","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-monaghan-gaa","tag-sports","tag-tyrone-gaa","tag-ulster-gaa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115895823567435284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}