The Donegal Garda soccer team took part in the Colm Horkan Memorial 5-a-side competition held today in Longford, hosted by the International Police Association (IPA). <\/p>\n
The team performed exceptionally well throughout the tournament, advancing all the way to the final.<\/p>\n
READ NEXT: Kevin McHugh looking ahead as first season in charge of Finn Harps comes to a close<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n In a closely contested match, Donegal narrowly lost 1\u20130 to the Garda College team. Despite the narrow defeat, the Donegal team\u2019s strong showing has earned them the honour of representing Ireland at the IPA World Games in Mallorca in May 2026.<\/p>\n The Donegal squad was: Shane O\u2019Gara; Michael Barr, Ronan Doherty, Matthew Leneghan,\u00a0 Padraig McFadden, Pearce Glynn, Noel Gavigan, Gerard McGee, Declan Roper and Seamus Corcoran.\u00a0<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Donegal Garda soccer team took part in the Colm Horkan Memorial 5-a-side competition held today in Longford,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57349,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-90349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal-junior-football-league","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349","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=90349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}