Colm McFadden has announced his inter-county retirement in the wake of Donegal's loss to Dublin.

Fellow 2012 All-Ireland winner Rory Kavanagh, who came out of retirement at the start of the year, has also hinted that the All-Ireland quarter-final was his last game for the Tir Chonaill men.

"That will be it after today, yeah," McFadden told the Irish Times.

"I don't know was it 14 or 15 years?

"Every man has his day. Suppose you would like to play on forever but you have to move on at some stage. I was lucky, a couple of great years, particularly these past five or six when we had success. It was a good way for it to happen after those barren years for the first eight or nine seasons. That the success came at the end made it all the sweeter as we had to wait so long.

"It was a great time to be a Donegal footballer."

Speaking to Newstalk, Kavanagh also intimated that he is ready to bring the curtain down on his inter-county career.

"Listen, it could be (my last game). I'm not gonna speak for other boys but listen it probably will be for a lot of boys. Time catches up with everybody and every man will go out with their had held high," he said.

"You know a lot of the boys were thinking of pulling the plug after being beaten by Armagh in 2010 so to come back and respond and prove a lot of the critics wrong and to go on and make so many great memories, is something I'll always cherish." 

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