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Saturday, August 6, 2016 All-Ireland SFC quarter-final Mayo 0-13 Tyrone 0-12
HEARTFELT Tyrone’s Rory
Brennan is consoled by
Mayo’s Cillian O’Connor
after defeat in 2016
Picture: Philip Walsh
T
YRONE had sealed their place in the last eight with
their first Ulster title in six years, their two-point
win over Donegal in the final setting up a clash
with a Mayo side which had taken a more circuitous
route. The Westerners’ defeat to Galway in the Connacht
semi-final and sent them into the Qualifiers, where they
enjoyed wins over Fermanagh, Kildare and Westmeath.
The one-point loss for the Red Hands seemed to hinge
on the second yellow card handed out to their skipper
Sean Cavanagh in the 58th minute with the game still
very much in the balance.
But for all the removal of such an inspirational figure
can affect any team, the hard facts are that with just the
minimum in it in favour of Mayo, Tyrone squandered
a handful of chances to split the posts for a levelling
score.
In a tit-for-tat second half, Darren McCurry hit an
equalising score with six minutes remaining as
Tyrone successfully steadied the ship after Cavanagh’s
departure.
However, an equally inspiring figure for Mayo in Lee
Keegan popped up on a trademark run to edge his side
in front and in the dying seconds, Tyrone could not find
that single score to bring themselves back into it.
Mayo would go on to defeat Tipperary in the semi-finals
before losing to Dubin in the final after a replay.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
All-Ireland SFC semi-final
Mayo 1-16 Tyrone 0-13
M
AYO arrived at this All-Ireland semifinal brimming with confidence. They
had comprehensively dispatched
Donegal in the quarter-finals, 4-17 to 1-10.
High scoring returns were a feature of their
Championship campaign that summer – they
had posted 4-16, 0-21 and 5-11 in seeing off
Galway, Roscommon and London respectively
on their way to a third straight Connacht title.
Tyrone didn’t have things as smoothly
though. A first round Ulster SFC defeat to
Donegal meant tight tussles with Roscommon,
Kildare and Meath, setting up an All-Ireland
quarter-final with Monaghan in a game famous
for ‘that’ foul by Sean Cavanagh on Conor
McManus.
After a cagey first half, which saw Tyrone lead
by a point, Mayo came storming out for the
second period and goal from an Alan Freeman
penalty four minutes into the half set the on
their way.
They would go on to outscore the Red Hands
1-10 to 0-6 in the second half and set up an
All-Ireland final against Dublin, where they ran
into an inspired Bernard Brogan, coming out
on the wrong end of a one-point result.
HIGH RISE Tyrone’s Colm Cavanagh and Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea slug it out in the
2013 semi-final