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Odhran MacNiallais brace hands 14-man Donegal win in fiery encounter

Donegal made light of Neil McGee’s first-half red card to book a Ulster semi-final against Monaghan.

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Donegal 2-12

Fermanagh 0-11

DONEGAL ADVANCE TO play Monaghan in the Ulster SFC semi-final, but they’ll have to do without the services Neil McGee for the next two games at least.

Odhran MacNiallais found the net either side of half-time as Donegal recovered from McGee’s dismissal to close out the game in the second-half.

McGee received a straight red card right before half-time but Sean Quigley missed the resultant spot kick and a chance to put Fermanagh ahead at half-time.

Donegal led by 1-6 to 0-7 at the interval and MacNiallais’s second goal left Donegal firmly in control.

Rory Gallagher’s side choked the life out of the game from that point as Fermanagh struggled to manufacture scoring chances from play.

Donegal and Monaghan meet in the last four on 25 June, while Fermanagh are consigned to the qualifers, where they’ll face Wexford in two weeks.

Donegal

Mark Anthony McGinley

Paddy McGrath
Neil McGee
Karl Lacey

Ryan McHugh,
Frank McGlynn,
Anthony Thompson

Rory Kavanagh
Hugh McFadden

Leo McLoone
Martin McElhinney
Odhrán MacNiallais

Patrick McBrearty
Michael Murphy
Martin O’Reilly

Fermanagh

Christopher Snow

Mickey Jones
Che Cullen
Marty O’Brien

Declan McCusker
James McMahon
Barry Mulrone

Eoin Donnelly
Aidan Breen

Paul McCusker
Ryan Jones
Richard O’Callaghan

Ruairi Corrigan
Sean Quigley
Tomas Corrigan

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