Guth & Tuairim, Bealtaine 1979

focus on I Full Name: Doalty Anthony Joseph Sweeney Birth~lace: Dore Heigh : 5' 8" Weight: lOst. lOlb. Previous Clubs: - Married: :tio Favourite Player: John 0 1 Donnell (Gweedore Celtic) Favourite Other Teams: Fern, Cranford. !-iost Difficult Opponent: They' re all difficult I-Iost l1emorable Hatches: Winning All> Ireland with :;)onegal Youths Biggest Thrill:. Winning the I.A.;,i.S. Cup Biggest Disappointment: Losing the league title in 77/78 Best Place Visite·d: England Favourite Food: . Steak and lllushrooms Miscellaneous Likes: Scoring goals Hiscellaneous Dislikes: Losing Favourite T.V. Shows: Match of the Day, Mind your Language Favourite Singers: Neil ~iamond, Olivia Newton John Favourite Actors/Actresses: Harlor..- Brando~ Jane Fonda Best ?riends: Many Big 1 :sest Influence on Career: Calm HcBride BisGest Drag in Football: Injuries . Honours: All Ireland Youth Medal, I. A. '.V. s. Cup Hedal, Top Four Cup r1edal, (hopefully League Medal) Personal Ambitions: To be happy Football Ambitions: To win everyth~ng possible with Gweedore Celtic 'dhich Person in the most n"Ke to meet'? athletics '. .,'orld \fould tou George Bes • · · · · champ ions Donegal Youths retained the National Youth Inter League Championship when they travelled to Cork last week and defeated a strong Cork A.1J.L. side 1-0 in the final at Cobh. Li.am 0' Donnell from Keadue Rpvers scored the elusive goal in the 34th minute which was enough to help his side of retaining the trophy Two Gweedore Celtic pl!;i.yers played a prominent part in helping Donegal their triumph John Barr and Gerry Coyle. After a lapse of over thirty years, athletics is making a comeb~ck in the Rosaes ag~in. Few parishes in Ireland have produced oetter athletes than did the Rosses in the past. Hen like the 3oyle brothers of Bunaman and th~ Sweeney br~tners of Mullaghderg kept the flag fly1n~ for th~ Rosses with many great victories during the twent1es and thirties. Annaary Athletic Club was set up over a year ago. 3ucc~ss came quickly. Annagry l~ationaJ, School won t he Primary School.' s Cha..."llpioriships in .June • Two athletes, Eugene Doogan from LouGhanure and Francis Gallagher from Rann-na-?eirsde qualified to represent Donegal at the ~11 Iraland finals of the Community Games at Butlins last September. On Sund.ay bth April the under 13 boys from Annac;ry became Donegal Champions over 1000 metres at Letterkenny. On Saturday 21st April the same team made the long journey to N.ewry fQr the Lisburn Cup Road Races and finished 2nd in Ulster behind Duncairn Harriers from Belfast. The young Rosses athletes now turn their attention to the Track and Field league, to the Community Games, to the Primary School 1 s Championships and to the .Ulster Championships in the hope of bringing more honour to their club and parish. ~IT1)~H~9h~~ff __ . D83PITi.i.:' recent disappointments both Hullaghdufi'- bands ·are back in full training for their respective competitions. . ~ere is plenty of activity around Hullaghduff hall these evenings as the 1V::ullaghduff youth enjoy themselves playing Table ':'ennis, Footb~ll, 8asketball, etc. A series of SUI!L~er disco's start on June lst and run throu:::;h the s•.urt.~er holidays. · Unfortunately due to poor weather conditions local events organised for sport for all day had to be called off. The development com~ittee -have released plans for the proposed building of a community centre at the site of the old Nulla.ghduff National School. Since the foimding of the Youth Clqb and the development committee, the townland has benefited imniensely. The young people occupy their spare time at the Youth Club and .iJisco 1 s an~--~~~e~ ?_ater for all ages. Gweedore, who hadn't a game for three weeks failed to recapture the form that brought them to the top of the ~ivision but nevertheless they . showed their mettle when they held a very highly rated Swilly Rovers tean which did exceptionally well in the F.A.!. Senior Cup this season. It was a closely foucht match with very few scqring chances cx'eated as both defences were dominant throughout the ninety minutes. Swilly hit the crossbar in the first half tfheh Brian ;larte hit a tremendous richt footed shot from the edge of the box with keeper Givens stranded. In . the second half Gweedore piled on the pre3sure lookinc for the elusive score that would have broue;ht them victory but the Swilly defence soaked up the pressure prevent.i):lg the G,aeltacht side of a hard earned victory. :Janiel th'.rd went verY close in brea4in.::; 'the deadlock i•hen he forced keeper ~amonn ~uigley to . make a ma.,znificient save from a header following a corner ten minutes from time. Gweedore Tea.m:- Seamus Givens, Jopn Earr, Patrick Ca~la;her, John 0 1 Donnell, Dinrty 3weeney, Daniel \vard, . Paul Sweeney, Charlie Doherty, Dermot ·Coll, · Donal HcGee,. Doalty Sweeney. · Ni thainig as 1 n olc a.riamh nach dearna maith do dhuine eigin. o£>.Qoo