The new South West Donegal schools gaelic football team made a winning start to their inaugural MacRory Cup campaign on Thursday with a 2-6 to 0-4 victory over Holy Trinity, Cookstown, in a match played in Banagher in Derry.
This new amalgamation of five Donegal secondary schools is contesting Ulster Colleges gaelic football’s premier competition, the MacRory Cup, for the first time ever.
The team is made up of players from five different schools: Colaiste na Carraige, St Catherine’s Vocational School Killybegs, St Columba’s Comprehensive Glenties, Pobalscoil Na Rossan and Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.
The new team will be trained by Shay Murrin, Gary Boyle and Niall Friel – and is an initiative devised at Donegal county level, to help improve talent ID and overall school standards in gaelic football.
South West are in a five-team Section A, which also includes, St Pat’s Armagh, St Colman’s Newry and Our Lady’s Castleblayney.
The other Donegal school in the MacRory this year are last season’s All-Ireland ‘B’ colleges championship, Abbey Vocational School (AVS), Donegal Town.
AVS will be play their first-ever group game next month against St Pat’s Academy, Dungannon.
