TRILLICK have won nine Tyrone Senior Championship titles: 1937, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1986, 2015, 2019, and 2023. There are two very obvious golden eras yielding a rich harvest – and we’re still, a decade on from that 2015 success, in the midst of a sustained period of excellence that shows no sign of coming […]
By Alan Rodgers ONE major decision by the European Union more than twenty years ago has now had a very positive knock-on impact for the family of a Loughmacrory player whose appearance in this Sunday’s County Final will make history no matter what the result. In 2004, ten countries joined the EU. Over the coming years, people […]
By Niall Gartland SUNDAY represents a sixth Tyrone Senior Championship final appearance for Mattie Donnelly. The 2015 final is regularly cited as the start of the journey for this Trillick team – that momentous October day against Killyclogher where they once again got their hands on the O’Neill Cup after a 19-year wait. When interviewed after the game, team […]
THE last few remaining club finals will take place this weekend before we can start to look ahead to the Ulster Club Championship campaign. The big one this weekend is undoubtedly the Tyrone Senior Football Championship final between Trillick and Loughmacrory. I’m not a betting man, but at the start of the club championships this […]
By Niall Gartland ACE Loughmacrory forward Ruairi McCullagh has vowed that they’ll be ready for Sunday’s Senior Championship showdown against Trillick. Not only is it their maiden final appearance with all the bells and whistles that entails, but they face a truncated lead-up after their semi-final win over Carrickmore necessitated a replay. But speaking in […]
By Niall Gartland TRILLICK are hardly lacking when it comes to the talent stakes, but Seanie O’Donnell says it was their “guts” that ultimately won the day in a titanic Tyrone Senior Championship semi-final against Errigal Ciaran. Defending champions Errigal Ciaran moved into a two-point lead with 45 minutes on the clock but didn’t notch […]
By Barry O’Donnell TRILLICK captain Lee Brennan has praised the personal qualities as well as the coaching acumen of the management team of Peter McGinnity and Richard Thornton given the tragedy which befell the club last season. The GAA world was left reeling following the untimely passing of Jody Gormley prior to Christmas, the 53 […]
LAST Friday night in the Tyrone Senior League, Dungannon beat Trillick 0-25 to 0-17. Trillick lost heavily, despite kicking the ball over the bar more times than Dungannon and playing the better football. They lost because Dungannon have a two-point specialist, Paul Donaghy, who kicked nine two-pointers. Dungannon’s next highest scorers on the night managed […]
By Barry O’Donnell TRILLICK joint-manager Peter McGinnity believes that it was evident during courses of his side’s fiercely competitive league encounter with Carrickmore last Friday that the championship is just around the corner now. The Reds went joint top of the Division One table by virtue of their 2-16 to 1-15 victory over Carmen at […]
By Alan Rodgers A REPEAT of last year’s Tyrone Senior final gave the two teams who contested that O’Neill Cup showdown the perfect opportunity to test their respective panellists in the first of a series of starred matches played without county representatives. Trillick and Errigal Ciaran played out a fairly entertaining draw on Sunday, the tie […]
