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Kenny Harkin scored a last gasp winner in \u201888 to defeat Tramore Celtic and seven years later a Paul McGeoghegan goal clinched a victory over Corinthians from Cork.<\/p>\n
He said:\u00a0 \u201cIt was really special…I mean, your own son scoring the winner like that, and all the celebrations after, and the papers were all talking about \u2018King Kenny\u2019 – they are great memories.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Horgan left Fanad to become the Finn Harps manager in late 2013, Harkin went to Finn Park and became a kit man all through the Galwegian\u2019s memorable nine-year spell.<\/p>\n
Kenny Harkin made 25 appearances for Harps in his playing days and Gareth Harkin – Kenny\u2019s son and Tommy\u2019s grandson – played 193 games for Harps.<\/p>\n
Tommy was at Dry Arch Park last weekend to cheer on Gareth, playing now for Bonagee United in the FAI National League. Another grandson, Mark, lined out for Bonagee and his based now in Australia while he is also a regular watcher of Kildrum Tigers, where grandsons Justin McGee and Gavin McGee have played over the last number of seasons.<\/p>\n
He was on the backroom team of Shane Byrne during a successful spell at Glengad United while he has also aided Byrne with the ATU men\u2019s team having previously been alongside Niall McGonagle at the then LyIT side.<\/p>\n
Over the years, he has helped with a variety of Donegal Schoolboy teams and lo-cal representative teams, while the likes of Carl McHugh, Johnny Dunleavy, Brian McGroary, Shane Blaney and Seamus Coleman are all players he has watched go across the water in their careers.<\/p>\n
Many happy returns, Tommy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal football legend Tommy Harkin is celebrating his 90th birthday today. The Carrigans man remains a regular attendee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-626356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626356","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=626356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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