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06 Sept 2025

Live updates: Donegal take on Cavan in Allianz League Division 2

Cavan and Donegal both had opened their Division 2 campaigns with wins last week and they meet at Kingspan Breffni in round two - please refresh the page to see the latest update

Live updates: Donegal take on Cavan in Allianz League Division 2

Kingspan Breffni Park is playing host to Cavan's Division 2 fixture against Donegal

32 mins - Cavan 0-4 Donegal 0-7
Oisin Gallen is on fire, with another great score to beat the Cavan press. Donegal are starting to get asserted control of the contest

30 mins - Cavan 0-4 Donegal 0-6
Cavan pull one back right away and this time it's Paddy Lynch who puts over the free

29 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-6
Oisin Gallen with a brilliant free from outside the 45 makes it a three-point game

28 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-5
Ciaran Thompson has a wand of a left foot, and shows his right isn't for standing on with a superb long-ranger to put the away team two up

26 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-4
Caolan McGonagle is back on following his black card. Cavan not holding back in any way and are not standing off Donegal

25 mins  - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-4
Heavy challenge by Killian Clarke on Ryan McHugh sees the Cavan midfielder yellow-carded

19 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-4
Ryan McHugh puts Oisin Gallen free down the right and the MacCumhaill's forward cuts inside and puts over a great score. Gallen and McBrearty now have two points apiece.



15 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-3
Caolan McGonagle has been black-carded for an off-the-ball incident

The pitch here at Breffni doesn't look as wide as it used to! Maybe that's a notion!

11 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-3
McBrearty's free from the 45-metre level levels it again

9 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-2
A mark by James Smith for Cavan is well executed and he slots over

8 mins - Cavan 0-2 Donegal 0-2
Patrick McBrearty makes good of an awkward chance to hook over

7 mins - Cavan 0-2 Donegal 0-1
The lead is as Cavan level with Padraig Faulkner before going ahead through Ciaran Brady's free

4 mins - Cavan 0-0 Donegal 0-1
Oisin Gallen skips through a couple of challenges and opens the scoring for Donegal

1 min - Cavan 0-0 Donegal 0-0
Gary O'Rourke, the Cavan goalkeeper on his debut, shows he's more than willing to push up and join the play, but the move comes to nothing 

4pm 
We're underway in Cavan. The home side have a slight wind in the opening half

Donegal manager Jim McGuinness has made three changes to the starting XV ahead of their Allianz League Division 2 clash with Cavan, throw-in 4pm.

Stephen McMenamin, Eoghan Ban Gallagher and Rory O’Donnell come into the team, in place of Mark Curran, Ciaran Moore and Peadar Mogan. Philip Doherty of Naomh Columba has been added to the substitutes.

Donegal: Shaun Patton; Stephen McMenamin, Brendan McCole, Domhnall Mac Giolla Bhríde; Ryan McHugh, Caolan McGonagle, Eoghan Ban Gallagher; Ciaran Thompson, Daire Ó Baoill; Rory O’Donnell, Odhran Doherty, Shane O’Donnell; Patrick McBrearty, Oisin Gallen, Jamie Brennan.

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