The surface story about Tyrone is that they are enduring a miserable football summer. It’s a misery many counties would wish for: they’ve also just won the All-Ireland U20 championship with an ease that should make people sit up.
Watching Tyrone dismantling Kildare in that game got me thinking about a long-forgotten U21 game of which I was part in the spring 1991. The turn of that decade was an interesting time in Ulster. In 1989, Donegal qualified for a surprise Ulster final and conceded a free to Tyrone in the last minute and were brought back for a replay. Everyone was delighted – two Ulster finals in one summer added to the novelty. But the team was heavily beaten the next day out.
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- May 21, 2022
