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I reckon Ricey will start tomorrow.

Awful news about the drowning. I see todays Daily Mirror quoting speculation from an internet message board about what happened.

Spitting the dummy out in the middle of a campaign is scandalous behaviour.

As part of the panel he should have shown some respect to the rest of his colleagues.

Happy enough with the draw. The rest week is a positive as is the home draw.

RIP Brian

Gortin hammered Newtownstewart unsure of score.

Also in the same division Aghyaran beat Urney.

Did Penrose play for Aghyaran?

I am unsure and my source has gone dark

Gortin hammered Newtownstewart unsure of score.

Also in the same division Aghyaran beat Urney.

Tyrone are moving along nicely now.

Thanks for the updates OG.

No mention of who scored the goals except one was from a penalty.

Penrose and the other came off a Cavan man.

Mickey Harte was on the sidelines for Tyrone's McKenna Cup game against Donegal on Sunday, less than a week after the funeral of his daughter Michaela, who was murdered while on honeymoon in Mauritius.

In spite of overnight frost rendering the pitch at Healy Park in Omagh unplayable, the Tyrone county board were determined that the game should go ahead.

The venue was switched to Edendork outside Dungannon at around lunchtime on Sunday, with the start time pushed back to 3pm.

In spite of the late change of time and venue, Tyrone's supporters came out in their thousands to show their support for their county team and manager after what had been a traumatic and tragic two weeks.



Wearing black armbands, the Tyrone players took to the field with their manager and went into a huddle before observing a minute's silence as a mark of respect for Harte's late daughter.

As the manager walked to the dugout alone, the crowd demonstrated their sympathy and support with a huge ovation as he took his place on the sideline.

It was Donegal who struck first in the opening minute through midfielder Rory Kavanagh, with Sean Cavanagh replying for the home side two minutes later.

Brian McGuigan, Dermot Carlin and Martin Penrose all found the mark to put Tyrone 3 points ahead before Martin Donnelly found the net in the 11th minute.

Cavanagh and Dermot Molloy then exchanged frees and Martin penrose fired over a score from play to give Tyrone a seven point lead.

It took Donegal until the 20th minute to begin to claw their way back, but they did so in some style with half-back McCloone starting a sequence of eight unanswered scores.

Daniel McLaughlin fired over with a minute left to put the visitors back into the lead.

The first half ended on a sour note when Colm Cavanagh was shown a straight red card following a melee involving players from both sides.

Referee Joe McQuillan blew the half-time whistle immediately after the sending-off, with Tyrone trailing by 0-10 to 1-6 at the break.

In spite of being down to 14 men, Tyrone put in a spirited display in the opening minutes of the second half.

Sean Cavanagh drew the sides level with a free and Aiden Cassidy nudged the home side back into the lead.

Donegal's numerical advantage cancelled out when Neil McGee was sent to the line in the 48th minute and Tyrone responded positively with points from Donnelly and McMenamin extending the lead to three points by the 43rd minute.

A superb save from Donegal 'keeper Paul Durkan denied Cavanagh what looked a certain goal minutes later.

Molloy, McErlean and McFadden exchanged scores with the Tyrone trio of Penrose, McGuigan and Cassidy as Tyrone took the victory by 1-13 to 0-13.

Takes a lot to make me cry but watching Mickey there now set me off.

Best not to speculate until confirmation of the cause of death.

Rest In Peace

Palor McNulty to lead Strabane Sigersons next season.