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Darragh Beirne played in the Hogan Final against St Pats Maghera in 2025. Maghera hammered St Colman's 2-08 to 0-04. Beirne scored all 4pts for the losing team. A year later he scores 1-03 in an All-Ireland final. Unbelievable achievement.

Stephen Gollogly

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2026/0723/1584549-former-monaghan-player-stephen-gollogly-dies/

[Colm Mc Fadden]

Big win for Kilrea in the relegation battle with Limavady, Faughanvale and  Screen all losing.

In the topic of coaches, Tally is defensive coach and is having big impact.
Mayo have top class forwards, Louth and Gavin Devlin have Ronan O Neill in there.

Even look at Wicklow and how their forwards play with Mc Convilles management/coaching.
Donegal - Colm Mc Fadden,
Kerry - Kieran Donaghy
Dublin - Dean Rock

We need a forwards coach if we are to have any hope. Benny Heron was good solid Derry servant but realistically how can he coach Mc Guigan, Murray, Doherty, Cassidy. Every one of them lads know they are better players than him added into the fact he has no previous coaching experience.

Before the pile on of "are you saying you can't coach if you've never played", absolutely not what I'm saying but you can't coach the players you played with.

Pretty sure that both McFadden and Rock are coaching players they played with.

[Getting turned over very easily in the tackle]

Doesn't look like Cork are used to playing against a side with this sort of intensity. Getting turned over very easily in the tackle. Cork keeper has had a few issues already.

Doesn't help when they are constantly carrying the ball into 2/3 Tyrone men.

Doesn't look like Cork are used to playing against a side with this sort of intensity. Getting turned over very easily in the tackle. Cork keeper has had a few issues already.

Derry are a better team than Louth, Mayo, Meath, Cork, Monaghan, Westmeath.

I really don't think we are.
One of those teams beat us twice this season
Two of those teams beat us once this season.
Three of those teams will be playing in a higher division than us next year.

Overall record Played 5: Won 1 Lost 4
No games against Mayo or Westmeath.

I'd suggest that if you picked a team of the season with those 6 counties along with Derry, you'd be hard pressed to include any more than a couple of Derry men.

So the narrative, this year, will be that it's better to be playing matches than sitting waiting in the quarter final.

Hurson telling all the subs coming on to take the gum shield out of their sock and back in their mouth.

Silly from Forker, absolutely no need for that shot.
Rafferty reminiscent of big Plunkett Donaghy

Surprised McElroy escaped a card there. Extremely reckless, just lucky he missed the Louth player.

Did Derry have a sub  Maor Uisce?

Who dished  out the water after his sending off? Maybe that's what contributed to their loss

It was the Meath Maor Uisce that got the line.

That was a poor performance. We made Meath look v good at times. Concentration was all over the place, spare Meath men in loads of space not being picked up over and over again. Giving away simple turn-overs playing passes that were never on. Lost one from a sideline ball in the second half, and one shortly after as the Derry player had his back to the play - which again happened time and time again. Plus a couple of costly wides in the second half from excellent positions.

Ridiculously slack on the Meath kick out- instead of picking up one Meath player, Derry were passing them from one to the other and running round not knowing who was marking who. And fairly static on our own. McGuckin can't take all the blame for that failure.

I don't think Baker can have any issues about being taken off - think he was done 3 times by the same dummy. The loss of Glass in terms of organisation in the second half can't underestimated either.

Disappointing season. No promotion, no Ulster final. Back to the drawing board - two seasons in and still no better playing with the new rules. When Meath were going forward there was always an outlet in front or off the shoulder. Very rare that happened for Derry. Any runner was isolated very quickly and had to turn back.

Pace wise Meath had the beating of Derry across the board. Even in the first half one of the Meath lads was moving away from Cassidy soloing the ball, while Cassidy was playing catch up. And that's hard to work with.

Talk of changing management is wrong as well - maybe a couple of tweaks in the backroom - but at some point the players have to look at themselves and their performances over the last 3yrs.

We'll win enough to stay in Div 2 next year. But it doesn't look like we'll be challenging for promotion.

Sean Hurson is the ref on Saturday.
Ruairi Kinsella is out for Meath - ACL in training.

Tickets are general admission. Which is how it is for the league games, so I'm assuming the stand must be on a first come first served basis.

[That goal scored by bobby mccaul today is one derry wouldn't score in a million years]

Whatever happens we probably need to stick with this management and get stability which I'm fairly sure is what will happen. They have made mistakes but we have a number of players who are off form and aren't playing with confidence. The bottom line is we have a good team for the old rules and we need to rethink our game plan and selection for the new rules. That goal scored by bobby mccaul today is one derry wouldn't score in a million years even though Lachlan murray is well capable of a goal like that. I can't believe sean kearney didn't get a run out yesterday, he's looked like he'll score every time he's got a chance this year.

Said exactly the same when it was scored.