Donegal and Mayo make early running in the league

“You’d drive yourself dotty trying to discern the meaning of games like these,” says Malachy Clerkin of Donegal’s win over Kerry in Ballyshannon on Sunday, something that could probably be said of all these early National League encounters, in both football and hurling. Donegal prevailed, consolation for the local youngsters who had hoped to catch a glimpse of David Clifford. Alas, “Santy” had stayed behind in Kerry. Mayo are the only other county to have made it two wins out of two in division one, Gordon Manning reporting on their six-point defeat of Dublin in Castlebar – after which Ger Brennan hinted that some...