{"id":601989,"date":"2026-08-23T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601989\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:14:09","slug":"donegal-masters-back-in-all-ireland-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601989\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal Masters back in All-Ireland final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal Masters gaelic footballers are back in the All-Ireland Tier 1 final following Saturday&#8217;s 1-6 to 0-7 win over Kerry in their semi-final, played in Claregalway.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal, who were beaten finalists last year, are aiming to go one step further in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>They will now play Dublin for the Dr Mick Loftus Cup (date to be finalised) after the Dubs beat Waterford decisively in Saturday&#8217;s other semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The final will be a repeat of the 2019 decider, played in Ballyleague, Co Roscommon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanfm.ie\/sport\/donegal-dethrone-dublin-to-win-all-ireland-masters-title-286378\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which Donegal won<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, in the Tier 3 All-Ireland Plate semi-final in Castlefin, there was disappointment for Sligo as they lost out to Derry on a final scoreline of 3-13 to 2-11.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s All-Ireland Dr Mick Loftus Cup semi-final results<br \/>Donegal 1-6 Kerry 0-7<br \/>Dublin 3-18 Waterford 1-8<\/p>\n<p>All-Ireland Plate (Tier 3) semi-finals<br \/>Derry 3-13 Sligo 2-11<br \/>Tyrone 4-14 Limerick 0-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal Masters gaelic footballers are back in the All-Ireland Tier 1 final following Saturday&#8217;s 1-6 to 0-7 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-601989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601989","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=601989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}