FINN HARPS’ rescheduled SSE Airtricity League Premier Division game against St Patrick’s Athletic clashes with what should have been a big night for the Donegal club.
The re-fixed meeting as been pencilled in for the same night as Harps is to have a Civic Reception held in their honour.
The game against St Pat’s was called off earlier today due to a waterlogged pitch at Finn Park.
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League chiefs met this afternoon and rescheduled the game for Monday-week, April 11.
However, Donegal County Council has arranged a Civic Reception in Harps’ honour for the same evening.
The Harps-St Pat’s game is set to kick off at Finn Park at 8pm, just two hours after the planned Civic Reception at the County House in Lifford is set to get underway.
Invites for the Civic Reception were sent out earlier today and Harps are known to be privately frustrated by the clash.
Harps are believed to have conveyed their feelings to members of the League hierarchy, but chiefs in Abbotstown, FAI headquarters, opted to press on with the game.
It is not clear if the Civic Reception will now proceed but if it does it’ll do so without the presence of the headline acts – the Finn Harps first team squad.
The motion to accord Harps with the Civic Reception was tabled by the Stranorlar Municipal Group, which is chaired by Independent Councillor Frank McBrearty Junior.
In December, professional boxer Jason Quigley was the recipient of a Civic Reception while the Donegal senior football team, Donegal captain Michael Murphy, the Donegal senior hurling team, the Termon senior ladies team and the county’s Olympians from 2012 have all been honoured at the County House in Lifford in recent times.
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