By Barry O’Donnell WHILE acknowledging that any promoted side will face a ‘rocky road’ on their journey to establishing themselves again as a proper senior outfit, Clonoe manager Kevin Madden admits it’s been a case of so far so good for the Rahillys on their return to Division One. An encouraging victory over Dungannon last […]
By Michael McMullan FORMER Tyrone star Stephen O’Neill feels the Tyrone camp deserve credit for how they turned their season around. Despite missing out on a place in the All-Ireland semi-finals this weekend, the current Tyrone U20 coach says Malachy O’Rourke’s side played with “pride and passion” in the championship. The Red Hands had an […]
By Alan Rodgers TYRONE were left to reflect on what might have been after Saturday’s agonising All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Kerry, with the sense that a major opportunity had slipped away. The disappointment of falling just short at Croke Park was matched by the belief that the Red Hands had done enough to win. Marginal […]
By Alan Rodgers ANOTHER year of inter-county footballing action is the big choice now awaiting many of the more experienced members of the Tyrone panel as they contemplate one more season of trying to once again claim an historic Sam Maguire triumph. The evidence presented on Saturday night against Kerry suggests that the Red Hands […]
By Barry O’Donnell THERE was no real weeping and gnashing of teeth from Tyrone manager Malachy O’Rourke when he reflected on Monday morning’s All-Ireland quarter-final draw, which pitched his side against the reigning champions and raging hot favourites for the 2026 title, Kerry. After Kerry’s emphatic win over Armagh last weekend, they were the team […]
By Barry O’Donnell UPBEAT Tyrone defender Joey Clarke feels that the brace of hard earned back-to-back one point Championship victories the side have now secured hopefully indicates that they have turned the corner after a difficult season. The 2025 All-Ireland winning Under-20 captain cut a contented figure out on the Healy Park pitch at the […]
By Barry O’Donnell DELIGHTED Tyrone defender Michael McKernan stressed that the presence of experienced campaigners was a key element to any successful team after the Red Hands squeezed past Mayo at a packed Healy Park on Sunday afternoon. Much has been said in recent years about the emergence of an exciting batch of young talent […]
By Barry O’Donnell MEMORIES of last year’s bitter Championship reversal at home to Mayo should act as an effective motivational tool for Tyrone heading into this Sunday’s latest clash between the two counties, manager Malachy O’Rourke hopes. Rewind the clock back twelve months and an apparently buoyant Tyrone were heading into the meeting with the […]
By Barry O’Donnell TYRONE manager Malachy O’Rourke has warned that in Roscommon on Sunday his side are coming up against one of the ‘form teams in the country’. The ‘Hyde’ will no doubt be hopping this weekend in this opening round match of the revamped (yet again) All-Ireland Senior Championship series as Mark Dowd’s newly […]
Icons of the proud Augher club recall their first ever Senior Championship victory in 1976… By Niall Gartland NESTLED a few miles from Knockmany Forest is the tranquil border village of Augher. It would be entirely unfair to characterise it as a mere one-horse town but it’s hardly an urban hotbed – the 2021 census […]
