Rural clubs in Donegal are continuing to lose players to emigration, despite the improved economic climate.

In her report to Sunday's annual convention in the Abbey Hotel in Donegal Town, county secretary Aideen Gillen notes how her board continues to be inundated with transfer requests to clubs overseas.

"We must recognise the changing environment in which we are now living and the decline or rural life as we once knew it," she writes.

"The challenges facing rural GAA clubs continues to grow with the lack of employment contributing to our youth emigrating. Our county committee meetings continue to reflect this with the large numbers transferring to clubs across the globe."

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