![]() “We really targeted having a good home record and then the turning point mentally for the boys was when we went to MacCumhaill’s and beat them in Ballybofey.” “We’d built up for the Downings game earlier in the year and it was like championship preparation,” Byrne added. The All-County League divisions would be redrawn from four to three, with Malin taking their place in the middle of those, the 14-team Division 2, perhaps considered outsiders, at best.Ī 1-11 to 0-6 victory over Downings at home in early April was a result that would carry more significance the longer the season went on and Malin also claimed notable victories at both MacCumhaill’s and Dungloe as the campaign took shape. ![]() “When we came in, having played with Malin myself and getting some of the older lads gathered around, from the very first meeting we stressed let’s have no ceiling and see where we end up,” Byrne said on Sunday, before the sad passing of John Byrne, the Malin GAA club treasurer. ![]() Byrne, who was double-jobbing with Glengad United, possessed the usual optimism of players instantly buying in and told the group to consider their possibilities. ![]() In the depths of last December at the most northerly GAA outpost in the country at Connolly Park, new Malin senior team manager Michael Byrne sat down with his players for the first time.įrom the highs of two appearances in semi-finals of the Donegal SFC in 20, the club had slipped to Division 3 of the All-County Football League and not made the semi-finals of the Donegal IFC. ![]()
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