{"id":397781,"date":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","slug":"donegal-town-u16s-prepare-for-home-all-ireland-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397781\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal Town U16s prepare for home All-Ireland semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/search?q=donegal+town&amp;idcanale=6&amp;idcanalericerca=6&amp;sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donegal Town<\/a> Under-16s have a home semi-final in the All-Ireland SFAI Trophy this Sunday against Offaly side Clara Town at the Hospital Field (kick-off 3.15pm).<\/p>\n<p>The Donegal side have come out on top in a number of close encounters, but THEY have battled well to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>A 2-1 away win over Monaghan Town saw them rewarded with back-to-back home ties against Verona FC of Dublin, where they won 2-0 thanks to goals from Aiden Molloy and Ryan Gee, before a 2-1 win over Carrigtwohill United from Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Iarla Cassidy grabbed both goals in the quarter-final win over Carrigtwohill, the second coming in the form of the winner from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/soccer\/2060718\/michael-mccolgan-scores-as-ireland-under-16s-beat-sweden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael McColgan scores as Ireland Under-16s beat Sweden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a massive day for the Club and we are making a big push to try and get as much support as possible,\u201d a spokesperson for the club said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Sunday, we will have our biggest test yet as we face Clara Town FC from Offaly as we aim to book a place in the final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Donegal Town Under-16s have a home semi-final in the All-Ireland SFAI Trophy this Sunday against Offaly side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57349,175838,1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-397781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal-junior-football-league","tag-donegal-town-fc","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397781","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=397781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}