14/06/2026
Where do we even start?! The curtain has come down on the inaugural South Donegal Mini-World Cup, and what a day it was to close out the week. With the sun splitting the stones at Drumbar, we welcomed 180 players, their families and friends, club members and local residents to the Club for a brilliant day of football. While we'll continue to share footage from the event throughout the week, we couldn't let the day pass without sharing our absolute gratitude and thanks to a number of people, without whom today wouldn't have been possible:
- To Donegal's Mayor Anna Gallagher, thank you for coming out and kicking off our festivities
- To the Donegal Town Band for the amazing music in the run up to and during our World Cup Parade
- To Josh Cullen (Finn Harps & Ireland) and Teagan O'Reilly (Drumbar & Ireland) for being a real inspiration to our young players during the medal and trophy presentations
- To Ryan and the team at McBrew for the delicious drinks and treats throughout the whole event
- To Jason "Mr Mac" and the ice-cream van - the highlight of the day for many!
- To our facepainters Lauren Mulhern and Ciara McMenamin for adding even more colour to the event
- To Darragh Quinn, Malcolm Duncan and their Pier Force team for all their support with pre-event preparations and logistics, and for the incredible drone footage from today
- To Matthew Harvey at MH Visuals for capturing images from the big event - we can't wait to see them!
- To the staff and Board of Gaelscoil na gCeithre Máistrí for the use of their incredible new facilities throughout the week
- To Paul O'Sullivan at Donegal Online for providing a livestream of our parade this morning and his support in advertising the World Cup event
- To the Drumbar club volunteers that showed up in their dozens today and throughout the week to ensure everything ran smoothly
- To the Mini-World Committee for the effort that's been going on behind the scenes for months to make this week happen
- To Paddy and Enda Brogan and our Chairperson Kevin Martin for their continued backing and dedication to this club and its ongoing development
- And finally, to every single one of the young players and their families who turned out in such numbers this week to make this event the spectacle that it was.
We can't wait to see you all back here in June 2027!!!