Carlin delighted as Tyrone u-20s get Dublin date


By Tommy Nethery TYRONE u-20s assistant manager Dermot Carlin has welcomed the announcement that the All-Ireland Championship is to be completed in late October. At one stage it looked like the county’s u-20 footballers would miss out on having a tilt at national glory after retaining their Ulster crown against Donegal back in early March […]


McMahon: Harte can add a fourth All-Ireland title


By Niall McCoy FORMER Tyrone defender Justin McMahon believes that Mickey Harte can add a fourth All-Ireland title to his collection before he ends his involvement with the Red Hand county. Harte will lead Tyrone into championship football for the 18th time when the season belatedly gets underway in a few months’ time, and the […]


Confusion reigns over McKenna test result


By Paddy Hunter and Niall McCoy CONFUSION reigns over Conor McKenna’s apparent ‘positive’ Covid-19 test that had seemed to put his Aussie Rules future in doubt. The Eglish man tested positive for the virus on Saturday, but on Tuesday he tested negative, raising the possibility that the weekend’s result was a false positive. Advertisement He […]


Justin McMahon – right place, right time


By Niall McCoy IT’S the days leading up to the 2008 All-Ireland final between Tyrone and Kerry and Justin McMahon is travelling home from training with his older brother Joe. They pull up to their house in Ashbourne out on the Dromore Road and take in their surroundings. There is red and white bunting everywhere […]