By Niall Gartland IT’S certainly no easy task but Eskra forward Mickey Woods is looking forward to having a crack at league champions Cookstown in Sunday’s Junior Championship quarter-final at Loughmacrory. Their opponents Cookstown have gone the entire season unbeaten and are bidding to win their second Junior Championship title in three years. Coincidentally it […]
Sláine McCarroll: Born to play
Sláine McCarroll was inspired by Tyrone’s All-Ireland win of 2008. Her career to date has brought success and injury heartache. Michael McMullan writes… TYRONE’S 2008 All-Ireland final win lit a fire in Sláine McCarroll that still burns bright. Within a decade, she was an All-Ireland winner at Croke Park and longs for another run out […]
Kelly appointed as new manager of Ederney senior footballers
TYRONE native Chris Kelly has been appointed as manager of Ederney, following Mickey Cassidy’s decision to step down in the wake of their relegational final win over Teemore. Kelly worked alongside Cassidy in a coaching capacity when the St Joseph’s club won the Fermanagh Senior Championship in 2020. In all, he spent four years with […]
Previews and predictions from this weekend’s Tyrone Championship games
TYRONE INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND ONE TATTYREAGH V ESKRA Thursday, Fintona, 7.30PM TATTYREAGH are the happier side going into this match as they staved off relegation while Eskra finished rock bottom in Division Two. The Tatts, who are managed by Eskra man Chris Kelly, are in a rich vein of form and are favourites to advance. […]
Eskra ready for fight for survival
IT’S no exaggeration to say that the race for survival in Division Two is on a knife-edge heading into the final three rounds of matches. Tattyreagh, Eskra, Rock, Clogher and Cookstown are in particular peril at the bottom of the table, and there are a few others who aren’t yet guaranteed of safety even at […]