{"id":244988,"date":"2026-01-14T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:33:07","slug":"donegal-and-monaghan-set-to-contest-dr-mckenna-cup-final-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244988\/","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":244989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4365,17769,6342,61,60,42187,112,60860,82613],"class_list":{"0":"post-244988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gaelic-football","9":"tag-derry-gaa","10":"tag-donegal-gaa","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-monaghan-gaa","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tyrone-gaa","16":"tag-ulster-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}