GALLAGHER ON TOP FORM AS TIR AVOID THE DROP

LEITRIM couldn't contain Donegal's Eva Gallagher

- BY DAIRE WALSH

EVA GALLAGHER was in flying form for Donegal as they secured their TG4 Championship status with a relegation playoff victory over Leitrim.

While Gallagher broke the deadlock with a fine point inside the opening 60 seconds, Leitrim squeezed in front courtesy of unanswered efforts by Muireann Devaney (a late addition to the starting lineup) and Ailbhe Clancy.

Yet Kilcar attacker Gallagher soon followed with her second point of the game and when Katie Dowds fed Susanne White close to goal on nine minutes, the latter fired smoothly into the bottom left-hand corner of the net.