Naomh Conaill defender Ultan Doherty pointed to his team’s experience following last Saturday night’s Ulster club SFC semi-final victory over Clontibret.

The Glenties club edged a 0-12 to 0-9 win over the Monaghan champions in Omagh to book their first provincial final berth since 2010 when they lost out to Crossmaglen Rangers and Doherty and Co are no relishing another shot at Ulster glory.

“When you’re playing with experienced bucks like them you get the confidence,” Doherty told The Irish News. “Ciaran Thompson was savage; he caught some great ball and kicked some great scores. Leo caught some ball too and so did big Kieran Thompson. There’s good height around the middle and we win most of our battles around midfield.”

On Sunday week’s big showdown with Down champions Kilcoo, he added: “I’m looking forward to it now. We’ll give it a good rattle and it’s going to be a tough game. They’re there on merit, they won their county and they’ve beaten two tough teams to get this far.

“It’ll be a battle and we’ll have to dig deep to win it.”

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