Darran O’Sullivan has been held in reserve for Kerry’s All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Tyrone at Fitzgerald Stadium tomorrow.

They had nearly finished sweeping the stand in preparation for the Connacht final the following day when Mickey Harte went off to the dressing rooms on Saturday night, the last man to leave the pitch, alone with his thoughts as he headed down to the changing facilities at Hyde Park.

Roscommon 0-8 Tyrone 1-16

Donegal 0-12 Tyrone 0-10

As expected, Meath full-back Kevin Reilly has been ruled out of Sunday’s Leinster semi-final against Kildare.

This was the game the Ulster Championship had been waiting for, and who better to deliver it than these fiercest of rivals.

Tyrone 0-19 Armagh 1-13

Cork boss Conor Counihan has kept faith with the side that claimed the honours in last month’s league final against Mayo for their 2012 championship opener against Kerry in Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final.

Kildare 0-16 Tyrone 0-11

Graham Canty comes back into the Cork side for Sunday’s Allianz Division 1 football league decider against Mayo in Croke Park having missed last Sunday week’s semi-final victory over Down.

A miserable afternoon for Monaghan at Healy Park ended with the news that Westmeath had beaten Derry to condemn the Farney men to Division Three next season.

Tyrone 1-16 Monaghan 1-6

Colm Cooper makes his first appearance of the year for Kerry as he captains the side against Mayo in Sunday’s Division 1 game in Fitzgerald Stadium.

Colm Cooper makes his first appearance of the year for Kerry as he captains the side against Mayo in Sunday’s Division 1 game in Fitzgerald Stadium.

Four straight defeats, and Meath are teetering on the brink of relegation.

Tyrone 1-12 Meath 0-5

Corkman Peter Creedon is expected to be ratified as the new Tipperary senior football manager next week, replacing John Evans.

It’s hard not to be impressed by the way Tyrone are going about their business and while it can be foolhardy to be basing championship notions on league form, the displays being produced by Mickey Harte’s men can’t be ignored either.

Galway 0-13 Tyrone 1-14

Aidan O’Mahony has been drafted into the Kerry team at full-back for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 tie trip to Páirc Uí Chaoimh to face Cork after Daniel Bohan underwent knee surgery this week which is set to see him sidelined for the next month.

Tyrone boss Mickey Harte cast a cold and critical eye on what he deemed a less than adequate performance, despite his team’s comfortable nine-point winning margin at Healy Park.

Tyrone 2-11 Westmeath 0-8

Alan O’Connor returns to the Cork team for tomorrow night’s trip to Portlaoise to face Laois in Division 1 of the Allianz Football League, having been forced to withdraw through injury before last Sunday’s loss to Donegal.

It’s three from three for Tyrone in Division 2 but this wasn’t the most convincing of performances.

Louth 0-13 Tyrone 2-13

Leinster Council chairman Martin Skelly feels that weaker counties — and in particular Kilkenny — should be given special dispensation to assemble squads outside of the GAA’s designated inter-county off-season.

“Hopefully Christy doesn’t get his way,” was the cry from Ulster captain Darren Hughes after accepting the M Donnelly Interprovincial SF Cup from the GAA president.

Ulster 3-11 Munster 1-15

The resurrected interprovincial series has lost its previous lustre but Ulster players’ hunger to win any game, irrespective of the grade, remains undiminished as they ripped a mediocre Connacht to shreds in yesterday’s one-sided semi-final at Markievicz Park.

Tyrone blew neighbours Derry away at Healy Park to step up their bid for promotion.

Allianz Football League Division 2: Tyrone 2-15 Derry 0-9

Alan Quirke is back between the posts for Cork who take on Down in this weekend’s Allianz Football League, at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday.

It started just five days after Dublin’s All-Ireland triumph with the news that Brian Dooher was pulling the shutters down on his 16-year career and only ended last week with Kevin Hughes’ decision to follow suit.

Tyrone 2-11 Kildare 0-12

DERRYTRESK last night launched an appeal process ahead of Sunday week’s All-Ireland Club JFC final against Galway champions Clonbur after being slapped with a reported eight suspensions following their controversial semi-final win over Kerry’s Dromid Pearses in Portlaoise last month.

Tyrone’s foundations for a serious push for promotion at the second attempt have been solidly laid.

Tyrone 1-14 Derry 2-8

Cork boss Conor Counihan has made six changes for next Sunday’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary in Clonmel from the side that overturned CIT in last weekend’s semi-final.

TYRONE blasted their way into the Dr McKenna Cup final with a second half blitz at the Athletic Grounds.

TYRONE legend Peter Canavan returned to Healy Park last night as Fermanagh manager but failed to take the scalp of his old friends.

MICKEY HARTE has made three changes to the Tyrone team that beat Roscommon for tomorrow’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Dublin. Justin McMahon replaces Ryan McMenamin, while Martin Penrose and Owen Mulligan come in for Tommy McGuigan and Kyle Coney.

WE have become accustomed to Dublin dominating the agenda at Croke Park — but this was something new.

Longford 0-15 Tyrone 1-17

Tyrone 0-09 Donegal 2-06