DONEGAL are considering the idea of playing the outstanding 2020 senior football final after the 2021 season has been completed.
The Irish News understands that the Tír Chonaill board’s Competitions Control Committee (CCC) are looking at pushing the Kilcar v Naomh Conaill tie until after this year’s championship has been played.
The pin was pulled on the Donegal final days before it was due to happen in late September last year, with the GAA making the call on a national level as it wrestled with the fallout over several high-profile incidents of post-match celebration after county finals, most notably in Tyrone and Waterford.
Covid-19 restrictions have meant that no games have been able to take place since, but the GAA has promised that it will honour the 2020 competitions and play those finals.
Director general Tom Ryan said that it was a “big priority” to get the 11 outstanding adult finals played, saying the postponements had “weighed heavily on me” and were “a matter of real regret”.
Donegal CCC held an online meeting with clubs earlier this week and laid out two potential options – one where the outstanding final goes first in August, and potentially pushes back the start of the 2021 competition, or that the 2020 final waits until afterwards.
It’s understood that both Kilcar and Naomh Conaill pushed back against the idea of the game being postponed again until later in the year.
Were either of the same two teams to win the 2021 competition, there would be the further complication of the Ulster Club series.
