BY HARRY WALSH

DONEGAL ace forward Brendan Devenney has hit back at claims that he has been dropped from Brian McIver's championship panel.

Speaking to the Donegal News yesterday (Thursday) Devenney said that he has pencilled in the Ulster semi final on Sunday, June 22, to make a come back from his latest injury.

Having limped out of St Eunan's club championship defeat in Glenswilly last weekend, Devenney knew deep down that he wouldn't be available for the Derry match on Sunday week, June 1.

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"I trained with Donegal these past couple of weeks and things had been going well. At County training last Thursday I tweaked the groin and when I limped out of the Glenswilly game I knew that I wouldn't make the Derry game.

"I'm not fit enough to play for the club this weekend and, therefore, I'm not fit enough to be part of the Donegal squad for the first game of this year's championship. We'll see what happens after the Derry game but I would like to think that I will play some part to play this summer," he said.

"There's life in the old dog yet," he laughed.

Meanwhile, his club St Eunan's go into this weekend's play-off match with Glenswilly with a number of injury worries. The game will take place in Convoy (thorw-in 4.45pm)with the winners playing Ardara.

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