Knights of St Columbanus with Bishop Donal McKeown. Photos: Geraldine Diver
Search
22 Oct 2025
Search
22 Oct 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
St Columba's Stranorlar won by two goals on the day
St Columba's, Stranorlar 2-9
Carndonagh Community School 0-9
St Columba's Stranorlar, were crowned U-19 County Champions on Friday after a titanic battle with Carndonagh Community School, in the Donegal GAA Centre in Convoy.
It was the Inishowen men who started the brightest with Altan Doherty and Daire Tully giving them a 0-3 to 0-1 lead with Jacob Malone firing over Stranorlar’s only point from a free.
Carndonagh went further ahead with points from Dylan Doherty and Daire Tully, before the Stranorlar boys started to get a grip in the game.
David Bradley Flynn tidied up a lot of loose balls, and in defence, Fionn Farren scored a point from a free.
Then in the dying moments of the first half a long clearance from Riley Stewart found Jacob Malone who beat two defenders before smashing in a cracking goal to leave the teams level at half time on a scoreline of 1-2 to 0-5.
In the second half, it was the Twin Town men who took the early initiative with Liam Gallen commanding the half-back line and two fine scores from Malone and Rory Doherty, giving them an early advantage.
But Tully had other ideas and rattled off four points in a row to leave Carn two points up with 10 minutes remaining.
But it was in the last 10 minutes that Malone stepped up with his leadership qualities and scored 1-3 to give the Ballybofey side a well-deserved victory.
Scorers – St Columba's Stranorlar: Jacob Malone 2-7; Fionn Farren and Rory Doherty. Carndonagh Community School: Daire Tully 0-7; Dylan Doherty and Altan McDermott 0-1 each.
St Columba's Stranorlar: Fionn Mc Ultaigh; Jamie Fallon, Conor Murphy, Callum Duffy; Lorcan Byrne, Davitt Bradley Flynn, Riley Stewart; Jacob Malone, Fionn Farren; Dylan Patton, Rory Doherty, Patrick Mc Elhinney; Jamie Gallen, Liam Gallen, Jack Mc Laughlin.
Carndonagh Community School: Cormac McGinn; Ronan Butler, Ruairi Doherty, Finn Duffy; Fergal Diver Hall, Shea Devlin, Oran Lafferty; Daire Tully, Dylan Doherty; Altan McDermott, Ryan Noone, Conor McCloskey; Donough Power, Luke Butler, Liam Doherty. Subs: Lochlainn Doherty, Cian Lafferty
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
