Match reportpublished at 21:02 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
That's all for tonight. We're back tomorrow with the Tyrone v Cavan replay. You can read about Donegal's narrow victory here.
Summary
Donegal beat Monaghan 0-17 to 2-10
First-half goals by Shane Carey and Conor McManus
Donegal reach sixth consecutive final
Holders Monaghan now play Longford in qualifiers
Match reportpublished at 21:02 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Winning manager's viewpublished at 20:57 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Quote MessageWe hit the ground running but then they got those two goals. It was disappointing to be just two points up at half-time. It was a great game and I think we were the better team
Rory Gallagher, Donegal manager
Image source, InphoImage caption, Donegal manager Rory Gallagher saw his side win by one point
Postpublished at 20:47 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Donegal will play the winners of tomorrow's replay between Tyrone and Cavan. We will have text commentary on that one, with live coverage on Radio Ulster medium wave. The whole match will be shown later on BBC2 NI at 18:30 BST.
Postpublished at 20:41 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Postpublished at 20:40 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Full-timepublished at 75 mins
Donegal 0-17 2-10 Monaghan
Referee Maurice Deegan calls for the ball - Donegal are through to the 17 July Ulster Championship final and holders Monaghan are out. Another close encounter.
Postpublished at 74 mins
Donegal 0-17 2-10 Monaghan
Corner-back Colin Walshe scores and there is one point in it with one minute of stoppage time left.
Frantic finishpublished at 70 mins
Donegal 0-17 2-9 Monaghan
Conor McManus lands a free and then substitute Jack McCarron scores to reduce the gap to just one point.
Black card for Monaghan's Karl O'Connell.
Then another Murphy free for Donegal.
There will be five minutes added on.
Red cardpublished at 65 mins
Donegal 0-16 2-7 Monaghan
Martin O'Reilly scores a point for Donegal who are reduced to 14 when midfielder Rory Kavanagh gets a second yellow card for hauling down Karl O'Connell by the neck.
McManus freepublished at 20:27 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Donegal 0-15 2-7 Monaghan
Monaghan skipper Conor McManus slots over a free and there are just two points in it. Extra time will be played if it ends level tonight.
Close!published at 60 mins
Donegal 0-15 2-6 Monaghan
Monaghan's Conor McCarthy goes through but his chip over keeper McGinley comes off the crossbar.
How huge could that moment be?
Three in itpublished at 59 mins
Donegal 0-15 2-6 Monaghan
Martin O'Reilly is supplied by McGlynn and the result is a 15th point for Donegal.
Nip and tuckpublished at 56 mins
Donegal 0-14 2-6 Monaghan
Patrick McBrearty quickly adds a fine score from play - but Jack McCarron's fine left-footed effort from distance is a worthy reply from Monaghan.
Postpublished at 54 mins
Donegal 0-13 2-5 Monaghan
Donegal skipper Michael Murphy slots over a free for their first point for 17 minutes.
On the Boylepublished at 53 mins
Donegal 0-12 2-5 Monaghan
Second-half substitute Conor Boyle scores a point from play to once again narrow the deficit to just one point.
Postpublished at 20:04 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Image source, InphoImage caption, Donegal's Martin McElhinney in action against Owen Duffy of Monaghan
Top Markpublished at 38 mins
Donegal 0-12 2-4 Monaghan
Mark McHugh produces the best score of the day,a brilliant right-footed effort from well out, and Owen Duffy lands a speedy reply for Monaghan.
Quick by Conorpublished at 36 mins
Donegal 0-11 2-3 Monaghan
Skipper Conor McManus cuts Monaghan's deficit to one point by scoring from play within seconds of the restart at Breffni Park.
Donegal repond with a free scored by Patrick McBrearty.
Interval analysispublished at 19:46 British Summer Time 2 July 2016
Brian Canavan
Former Armagh joint manager on Radio UlsterBoth of those goals could easily have been avoided. Donegal failed to defend the free and then it was a stupid penalty. They have been by far the better team and manager Rory Gallagher will be disappointed they are only two points ahead.
Donegal two up at the breakpublished at Half-time
Donegal 0-10 2-2 Monghan
Michael Murphy lands a fine free for Donegal and it is the last score of the first half. His third point of the match and a two-point lead for his team.