Casey can point way to a better future as Tyrone eye silverware
Tyrone hot-shot Damian Casey believes his side can strike a further blow for their hurling credibility when they meet Derry in the Ulster Shield final on Sunday.
Tyrone hot-shot Damian Casey believes his side can strike a further blow for their hurling credibility when they meet Derry in the Ulster Shield final on Sunday.
Tyrone will enter today's Ulster Shield hurling championship semi-final against Fermanagh at Clones (3.00pm) determined to make amends for their capitulation against Donegal in the Allianz League Division 3A final last weekend.
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte last night refused to respond to explosive claims by controversial pundit Joe Brolly, who suggested "it is time to change now" when asked about Harte's future.
Joe Brolly has claimed that a Tyrone player told him privately that training with the county team is “depressing.”
Tyrone's hopes of gaining promotion to Division 2B of the Allianz Hurling League were shattered at the weekend by the scoring prowess of Donegal's new recruit Davin Flynn.
Tyrone's hopes of reaching the Division One Allianz National League final ended at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney when they were well beaten by Kerry.
When Tyrone and Donegal lock horns in the Allianz Hurling League Division 3 final at Celtic Park, Derry today (2.00pm) it will prove a decider in more ways than one.
Just five days after capturing the MacLarnon Cup for the first time on St Patrick's Day, St Ciaran's College Ballygawley were in action against St Mary's, Carlow in an All-Ireland semi-final which they won by a point.
On the weekend that Tyrone will bid to secure a place in the Allianz Football League Division One final, another team from the county will attempt to keep the Red Hands flag flying in a different sector.
Tyrone will not be contesting a striking charge laid against midfielder Mattie Donnelly by the Central Competitions Control Committee after an altercation with Aidan O’Shea at the end of last Sunday’s defeat to Mayo.
Tyrone's task in going to Killarney this weekend for a must-win game against Kerry could be made far more difficult with a possible suspension to Mattie Donnelly.
St Ciaran's College, Ballygawley failed to land the first leg of what was hoped might prove an All-Ireland double for the school when they were beaten by John The Baptist, Hospital (Limerick) in the All-Ireland Ladies Schools 'A' final at Cusack Park, Mullingar yesterday.
The theory that an extension of Dublin's supremacy in the Allianz Football League is a foregone conclusion has been diluted to some extent now that three Ulster sides share top spot with them in Division One.
This has become one of the GAA's most fierce and intense rivalries and it was impressive, imperious Donegal who drew blood on Saturday night.
The mesmeric skills, acute vision and sure finishing touch were there in abundance as the lightly-built Darragh Canavan left no-one at the Athletic Grounds in any doubt that he has inherited all the qualities which elevated his famous dad Peter to iconic status.
Tyrone and Donegal must do it again after extra-time couldn't separate them in their Ulster U21 quarter-final at Healy Park. David Mulgrew, Paul Donaghy and Liam Rafferty helped the hosts to a 0-3 to 0-1 lead but Donegal led 0-5 to 0-4 at the break.
As the only other unbeaten manager in Division One apart from Dublin's Jim Gavin, Mickey Harte and Tyrone will have to surmount an additional obstacle to make it to their first league final since 2013.
The only manager to have put one over Tyrone boss Mickey Harte this year will attempt to repeat the feat on Sunday - but from a much less comfortable standpoint.
We are now 15 years on from the Cork strike, when the hurlers and footballers of the Rebel County downed tools in protest against a regime that they felt - and were subsequently proved correct - were denying them the chance to reach their full potential.
Tyrone's Ronan McNamee has admitted that ongoing issues over expenses — with the players recently being asked for a £15 payment for sundry items — is beginning to have an effect on team morale and their chances of winning major honours.
Director-General of the GAA Páraic Duffy, has spoken of his relief that Central Council proposals to revamp the All-Ireland football Championship were passed by annual Congress on Saturday.
Tyrone will face a rather familiar face when they confront Donegal in an important Allianz Hurling League Division 3A encounter at Healy Park, Omagh tomorrow.
Tyrone chairperson Roisin Jordan has issued a robust response to penny-pinching allegations which have been levelled at the county board.
Tyrone and Ulster champions Rock's hopes of a first ever All-Ireland Junior championship title ended in disappointment at Croke Park yesterday afternoon, when they lost out to Kerry champions Glenbeigh-Glencar.
Ciaran Gourley may have won All-Ireland medals with Tyrone in 2003, 2005 and 2008 but the 37-year-old Rock St Patrick's utility man has his heart set on another milestone on Sunday.
Sean Cavanagh is "99 per cent sure" he's ready to bring the curtain down on his intercounty career at the end of the current season.
Over the years, Dublin and Tyrone have produced a number of close and thrilling encounters and at a bitterly cold Croke Park on Saturday night came the latest installment as it finished honours even at 0-10 to 1-07 in Allianz League Division One.
When Tyrone confront Dublin in the second round of Allianz Football League Division One at Croke Park tomorrow, they will not only be seeking the two points on offer but will be bidding to end their opponents' 30-match unbeaten run in league and championship.
Tyrone ensured their return to Division One was a winning one after they recovered from an early Roscommon goal to take the spoils at Healy Park.
Not many players achieve the distinction of picking up two trophies within a 24-hour period in the month of January.
Tyrone champions Rock reached their second All-Ireland Junior final after they proved too strong for British champions Dunedin at the Athletic Grounds in Armagh yesterday afternoon.
Tyrone have emphatically dispelled any doubts that their long-running love affair with the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup may be tapering off by scoring a whopping 4-40 in their last two games.
Tyrone thought their task for the evening was to out-score Fermanagh, who were playing in Enniskillen, but instead they topped Group C helped by Cavan's inexplicable collapse against University of Ulster, Jordanstown.
Tyrone got their hopes of a sixth McKenna Cup title in a row back on track at Carrickmore yesterday but it was only in the second half that they managed to put UUJ to the sword.
It's rare indeed for Tyrone to lose two competitive games on the trot but it's against this backcloth that Mickey Harte's side must seek redemption when they take on UUJ in Section C of the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup at Healy Park, Omagh tonight (7pm).
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte maintains he will be looking for a serious response from his players this weekend when they face University Ulster Jordanstown, after an insipid effort last Sunday in their defeat to Cavan.
Forget the result, or even the non-event that was the 'mark' being introduced to Gaelic football.
The two managers shared a warm handshake before this match, but that was the only fondness on display in an uncompromising January game that saw no prisoners taken.
The missing ingredient in the Tyrone attack could be the highly-promising Lee Brennan, maintains his Trillick clubmate, two-time All-Star Mattie Donnelly.
If 2016 proved rather hectic for Tyrone ace Mattie Donnelly, then he has no hesitation in hoping that 2017 will be "maybe twice as hectic".
The GAA could stop playing the Irish national anthem and flying the Tricolour at matches "when the time is right and it is for the greater good" of the sport, the legendary Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has said.
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte believes that 24-year-old Niall Sludden can prove an inspirational player in 2017.
Tyrone may have already surrendered the first of the four trophies which they won this year but Peter Harte, now very much a pivotal player in the Red Hands' set-up, does not necessarily see this as a setback.
Conor Meyler has already laid down a marker that he is keen to be part of the Tyrone set-up again through his industrious performances against Louth and Armagh in the O'Fiaich Cup.
Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney has been round too many corners to go jumping through hoops when confronted by the green shoots of recovery.
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte will adopt a wait and see attitude in relation to Donegal's expressed intention to play their Under 21 team in next month's Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup competition.
We are still on the countdown to Christmas, the wheels of the GAA world are turning rather more slowly than usual and training pitches could not be said to be densely populated.
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