By Niall Gartland INJURED Trillick and Tyrone stalwart Mattie Donnelly will discover this coming Wednesday whether surgery will be required for a long-term injury that has ruled him out for the rest of the season. The two-time All-Star tore the posterior cruciate ligament in his knee and suffered a broken tibia while playing for Trillick […]
Distinguished defender Ronan McNamee calls it a day with Tyrone
October 31, 2023
By Niall Gartland VETERAN Tyrone full-back Ronan McNamee has taken the decision to retire after more than ten years of donning the county jersey with distinction. The Aghyaran man earned a deserved reputation as one of the most tenacious and talented defenders in the modern game, winning an All-Star award for his performances in 2019. […]
Burns hoping for a perfect finale
October 27, 2023
By Niall Gartland WHETHER it’s with club or county, Pomeroy skipper Frank Burns will give his utmost for the cause. Tyrone’s All-Ireland campaign ended earlier than any of us would have liked with a bruising last-eight defeat to Kerry, but there was never any questioning of slackening off as Burns returned to his club duties with […]
Monster challenge complete
October 26, 2023
Coalisland championship winner Gerard Devlin ran 52 marathons in the last 52 weeks to raise money for club funds. He completed his final leg on the Camino de Santiago at the weekend and Michael McMullan caught up with him… FR Peter Campbell Park in Coalisland is nearly 1,700km from Sarria, on the North West corner […]
Coalisland marathon man embarks on final leg
October 18, 2023
By Michael McMullan COALISLAND championship winner Gerard Devlin will embark on the final leg of a mammoth club fundraiser this weekend. Devlin played on the Fianna team to win back to back O’Neill Cups in 1989 and 1990. Over the last 12 months he has been clocking up the miles in a challenge that will […]
“I just loved testing myself against others”
October 3, 2023
FORMER Tyrone and Carrickmore ace looks back at some of the memorable games playing and watching football down the years… Name: Eilish Gormley Teams played for: An Charraig Mhór, Tyrone, Ulster, St. Mary’s, UUJ, Combined Ulster Colleges, Combined Irish Colleges, Roscommon Ladies in Boston, Connacht Ladies in Boston, Armagh Ladies Rugby. Current involvement: Advertisement I […]
Meenagh joins Conor Laverty’s backroom team in Down
October 3, 2023
CIARÁN Meenagh has joined the backroom team of Conor Laverty’s Down Senior Footballers, it has emerged this evening. Meenagh had been involved with Derry since 2018, originally in a coaching capacity before stepping into the management position vacated by Rory Gallagher in the lead-in to this year’s Ulster final. Subsequent to their impressive showing against […]
Cormac McAnallen: The Brantry Boy will remain forever young
September 30, 2023
By Niall Gartland CORMAC McAnallen is forever young. The Brantry Boy is immortalised in the mind’s eye as the fiercely determined Tyrone footballer whose mid-season reinvention as a full-back was the missing piece of the jigsaw in 2003. Four games was all it took for Cormac to nail down the All-Star full-back position. Tyrone’s calamitous […]
Captain Canavan recalls a milestone season
September 29, 2023
By Barry O’Donnell DESPITE the passage of time memories of that halcyon summer campaign are still vivid. It’s 20 years exactly today (September 28th 2003 ) since the famine ended with Tyrone laying claim to its first ever All-Ireland senior football title. A 0-12 to 0-9 triumph over defending champions and old adversaries Armagh in […]
McGleenan wishes Conor all the best in big AFL Grand Final
September 27, 2023
CONOR McKenna is bidding to become the first Tyrone man to win an AFL Premiership medal when he lines out in the block-buster Grand Final this Saturday for his club Brisbane Lions in front of 100,000 enraptured supporters. Only one other native of the county – Brocagh-born Aidan Corr – has played in an AFL […]