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Donegal have a hard road to glory this year Reporter: sport@leitrimobserver.ie ABOVE: Hugh McFadden of Donegal in action against Peter Turley of Down TOP: Ryan McHugh of Donegal leading the players on to the pitchPhoto by Oliver McVeigh/Sportsfile ');  '); Donegal's 2021 GAA season could last six or 16 weeks. Five games or 10 games. The first five games are guaranteed. The first four will only determine league position for 2022, but after that it is championship, win or bust, losing means season is over. There was a time when it was always like this. For the last couple of decades there wa...

A portrait of Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, Godfrey's father. Copyright: Newport Museum and Art Gallery  However, they were not always liked by those who lived in the area. His father fought with troops against workers who protested in Merthyr during the June Uprising, while his grandfather was criticised by John Frost, leader of the Chartist movement, for the treatment of his tenants. Godfrey, however, marked a sea change for the Morgan family and their reputation in the local area. A photography of Godfrey Morgan in 1910. Copyright: Newport Museum and Art Gallery Perhaps chang...

1. An All-Ireland winter driving us home for Christmas In the canon of uplifting triumphs over grim adversity, the GAA’s herculean achievement in staring down Covid-19 merits the highest battle ribbon. The thrill of the 2020 championship was that it was born at all, a two-month cavalcade of hope and joy and defiance that somehow survived every ambush an evil and cheerless pathogen could lay along the December road. Those Saturdays and Sundays in front of the TV brought comfort, the oxygen of anticipation and an urgently required chink of normality, food for the soul in a year when so many w...