Ryan McHugh is confident that Donegal can bounce back from their All-Ireland final heartache.

The 20-year-old, who netted twice against Dublin in the semi-final, believes the Ulster champions have time on their side as they seek to get Sunday's defeat out of their system and regroup:

"Yeah, definitely, we're a young enough team," he tells The Irish Times. "We've great belief in that dressing room as I think we've shown all year. I think we definitely can bounce back.

"The All-Ireland final is one of the biggest days in the calendar so nerves are always going to be at you. Against Dublin, everything went right for us. This time a few wee things didn't go right. It happens. That's gaelic football.

"At least there's always another day in gaelic football. We knew coming in that Kerry were going to set up like that, very defensively. But they probably beat us all over the pitch, to be fair to them.

"We thought we had a game plan to go out and defeat Kerry - we just didn't go out and do it. That's as much our own fault. But Kerry definitely deserved the victory."

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