Four Masters to honour Donegal championship winners of 1982 and 1984

Four Masters will honour their senior championship-winning sides of 1982 and 1984 at this weekend’s club dinner dance. 

Following on from their 1981 defeat to Ardara, the Donegal Town club, then managed by Donegal U-21 boss Tom Conaghan and captained by former Donegal player Donal Monaghan, captured their first county senior title in the club's history the following season with a 1-4 to 0-6 point win over Kilcar. 

The Four Masters club would replicate this achievement two years later when they reclaimed the Dr Maguire Cup with a 0-9 to 1-2 point win over Ardara in the 1984 Centenary county final. 

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Both the 1982 and 1984 sides would include several players that togged out for the Donegal senior team throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, with four players – Michael Kelly, Michael McBrearty, Seamus Meehan, and Joyce McMullin, featuring in Donegal’s historic U-21 All-Ireland final win in 1982. 

McMullin would later become a star player for the Donegal senior team under managers Conaghan and Brian McEniff with the Donegal Town man featuring for the Donegal senior team 129 times, while also winning an All-Star in 1990 and playing in the left-half forward position during Donegal's memorable 1992 All-Ireland final win over Dublin. 

The Four Masters dinner dance will take place this Saturday where they will honour the ‘82 and ‘84 teams respectively, as well as current club sides such as the Four Masters U-21 panel who won the county title last winter, the senior hurlers who won the county junior championship, and the senior footballers who were crowned Division 2 league champions.