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DONEGAL FOOTBALL: THE INCREASINGLY embittered business of county managerial appointments took another hostile turn yesterday when Declan Bonner confirmed he and fellow Donegal football candidate Charlie Mulgrew are calling on the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) to examine the process which led to former county colleague John Joe Doherty being ratified for the position on Monday night.

It marks the latest in a series of disturbing fallouts from the so-called manager merry-go-round season, following on from the crisis in Cork hurling, and also the increasingly apparent influence of player power which clearly contributed to the recent removal of Wexford and Galway hurling managers John Meyler and Ger Loughnane respectively, and also of Waterford hurling manager Justin McCarthy at the start of the summer.