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26 Oct 2025

How did Donegal's win over Clare rank in terms of their record championship wins?

Donegal ran up a 24-point winning margin against Clare at MacHale Park in Castlebar on Saturday and not only did it concrete their place in the All-Ireland quarter-finals, it also got us thinking about how it ranked in terms of their biggest championship winning margins

Joint-fourth biggest ever championship win (16 points)
Donegal 2-17 Fermanagh 0-7
June 21, 1992
Ulster SFC semi-final
The headline in the Donegal Democrat read “Just not good enough,”despite Brian McEniff’s team sauntering to a fourth successive Ulster SFC final in succession having scored 2-11 in the second half.
Fermanagh’s spirit was broken with the sending off of Michael O’Brien and Donegal ran out easy winners with Tommy Ryan hitting 1-3 and James McHugh the other goal. They would follow that up with victory over Derry 0-14 to 1-9 with John Cunningham having been sent off in the first half, to overcome Mayo 0-13 to 0-9 and Dublin, 0-18 to 0-14, to lift Sam Maguire for the first time. Not bad!

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