Tyrone GAA
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| Irish: | Tír Eoghain | ||
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| Province: | Ulster | ||
| Nickname(s): | The O'Neill County The Red hands |
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White, Red |
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| Ground(s): | Healy Park, Omagh | ||
| Dominant sport: | Gaelic Football | ||
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| NFL: | Division 1 | ||
| NHL: | Division 3B | ||
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | ||
| Hurling Championship: | Nicky Rackard Cup | ||
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | ||
| Camogie: | Nancy Murray Cup | ||
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White, Red
The Tyrone County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Tír Eoghain), or Tyrone GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland. It is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tyrone and for the Tyrone inter-county teams.
Tyrone have won three Gaelic Football All-Ireland finals, from five appearances. They lost in 1986 and 1995, but won in 2003, 2005 and 2008. They reached the semi final of the 2009 All-Ireland championship but lost to Cork. Tyrone won their first Ulster Championship in 1956, defending it successfully in 1957. The last time they won was in 2016. Tyrone have achieved fourteen Ulster titles. They have also won two National League titles, winning them in 2002, and 2003.
Tyrone were knocked out of the 2006 Gaelic Football Championship after a game against a superior Laois side, on a wet and dismal Saturday night in O'Moore Park, Portlaoise. They followed this up with a negative result in the 2007 National Football League. However Tyrone came back by winning the 2007 Ulster Senior Football Championship at Clones in July for the first time since 2003 but then lost to Meath in the All-Ireland Quarter Final. The Tyrone panel had been depleted by injury, with team captain Brian Dooher (shattered kneecap), inspirational play maker Brian McGuigan (damaged eye) and midfielder Colin Holmes ruled out for the season, while other key players, including Stephen O'Neill, Gerard Cavlan, Michael McGee and Conor Gormley, were all missing for most or all of the 2007 campaign due to injury. The 2008 campaign was once again plagued by injuries although things appear to be looking up for the red hands after a rather disappointing league campaign finishing with a mid table position. Things then got worse for Tyrone as they relinquished their Ulster title to Down after a replay in which Down won by a point after 160 minutes of football. After two wins in the Football Qualifiers against Louth at Drogheda and Westmeath at Healy Park in Omagh respectively, they faced Mayo in Round 3 on Saturday 2 August in Croke Park for a place in the quarter finals of the Championship. Tyrone went on to defeat Mayo with a scoreline of 0–13 to 1–9 meaning Tyrone earned a place in the quarter finals (last 8) of the championship, where they faced Leinster champions Dublin. Tyrone made the brighter start to this game with early points from Tommy McGugian and Colm McCullagh, Dublin got back to level terms however Tyrone pulled away with 2 further points the pick from captain Brian Dooher and a goal from Sean Cavanagh gave them a commanding 1–5 to 0–2 lead, a mix up in the Tyrone full back line lead to a soft Connall Keaney goal however Dublin's celebrations were short lived as a beautiful angled ball from Tommy McGuigan gave Joe McMahon a goal opportunity which he took to put Tyrone 2–5 to 1–2 up, Dublin scored another point before half-time to leave them trailing by 5 at half time. On the restart Tyrone added 2 points with McCullagh and Dooher the scorers. A brief Dublin revival followed with back to back points, But Tyrone raced up the field with Colin Holmes giving the ball to McCullagh who then picked out the running half back David Harte and he made no mistake with the finish giving Tyrone a 3rd goal and ending the game as a contest. Harte, Cavanagh and Dooher added points but Dublin looked like a beat team with 20 minutes to go. While no Tyrone player had a bad game the GAA man of the match award went to Brian Dooher who scored 3 points and also set up vital plays bringing the ball out of defense. Tyrone then faced Wexford for a place in the senior football final but earlier in the day it was the Tyrone minors who booked their place in the final with a complete football performance, and eased past Meath on a scoreline of 1–21 to 2–7. They faced Mayo in the final. The seniors then always looked confident in their meeting with Wexford. And after racking up an 8-point lead at half-time they went through pretty comfortably with 6 points to spare, However Wexford did cause problems during 10 minutes of the second half to bring the gap down to two points, then scores from Phillip Jordan, Colm McCullagh and Ryan McMenamin made sure that Tyrone would set up a September 21 date with All Ireland champions Kerry (who beat Cork earlier in the day 3–14 to 2–13). Tyrone's Colm McCullagh was named the GAA Man of the match after setting up and indeed taking crucial scores at the right times. Since then, Tyrone have gone downhill a lot, and were defeated in Killarney by Kerry in the 2012 All Ireland Championship.
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