Sparks expected to fly


All-Ireland SFC Round 2 TYRONE v ARMAGH Saturday, O’Neill’s Healy Park, 7pm (Live on RTÉ) By Niall Gartland Advertisement ARMAGH dumped reigning All-Ireland champions Tyrone out of the race for Sam with surprising ease this time last year, but the feeling is that the gap between the two teams has been not just narrowed but […]


Cathal McShane set to miss Armagh match through injury


CATHAL McShane is unlikely to play any part in Tyrone’s Saturday night clash with Armagh, according to joint-manager Brian Dooher. The Owen Roes forward missed the tail-end of Tyrone’s Division One campaign due to injury and he has yet to make it back to full fitness. While he was named on the subs’ bench for […]


Effort of Red Hand players can’t be faulted says Dooher


By Niall Gartland TYRONE joint-manager Brian Dooher said he “couldn’t fault” the application of his team during their narrow defeat away to Galway last Saturday in Salthill. Pádraic Joyce’s side led for practically the entirety of the game and had the benefit of an extra man following the first-half sending off of Frank Burns, but Tyrone […]


Tyrone have it all to prove


ALL IRELAND SFC ROUND 1 Galway v Tyrone Saturday, Pearse Stadium, 5.15pm By Niall Gartland Advertisement ONE wonders whether the Tyrone camp will have appreciated Paul Flynn’s comments at the weekend on the Sunday Game. Whatever about the Derry and Armaghs of this world, the gravelly voiced Dub opted to hype up the Red Hands […]


Can Farney derail Tyrone?


By Niall Gartland ULSTER CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTER-FINAL Tyrone v Monaghan Sunday, O’Nelll’s Healy Park, 4pm Advertisement LET’S get ready to rumble and all that, but there’s a nagging feeling that the Ulster Championship has been diluted by the decision to essentially prise apart the provincial championships from the race for the Sam Maguire. Indeed, a few commentators […]


Tyrone just need a few tweaks says Devlin


By Barry O’Donnell FIRST the good news… to say Tyrone’s track record in Castlebar is very good would be something of an understatement. In fact you have to go all the way back to Art MacRory and Eugene McKenna’s first match in charge as a joint management team in 1992 for the last occasion that […]