Donegal tweed manufactured for centuries it took on its modern form in the 1880s, largely due to the pioneering work of English philanthropist Alice Rowland Hart. While the weavers in County Donegal produce a number of different tweed fabrics, including herringbone and check patterns, the area is best known for a plain-weave cloth of differently-coloured warp and weft, with small pieces of yarn in various colours woven in at irregular intervals to produce a heathered effect. Such fabric is often labelled as "donegal" (with a lowercase "d") regardless of its provenance. Along with Harris Tweed manufactured in the Scottish Highlands, Donegal is
Donegal v Dublin (2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship) an All Blacks team. Now, I was part of the Ireland back-room staff when they played against the All Blacks [...] Even the All Blacks are fallible. So if the All Blacks are fallible, why then are the Dublin team not fallible?" Dublin manager Jim Gavin admitted Dublin were defeated by "a better Donegal team". Donegal minor manager Declan Bonner criticised Dublin's "juvenile" defending and said he was "surprised me how Dublin folded easily. Their defensive shape just disappeared. There were gaping holes right through the middle of their defence. [...] There was no defensive plan. We could have got