Tyrone and the challenge of timing a steady run to September

Hard to believe it is almost 10 years since Tyrone won the last of their three All-Irelands, writes Colm Cooper.

There have been ebbs and flows in the meantime for Mickey Harte, seasons when I thought they were the anyone-but-them rivals, and other season when they looked like a spent force.

Harte enjoyed last Sunday. He said he saw that smooth, sharp performance against Donegal coming from a long way out. But he had to do it in the shop window with the curtains pulled back. Everybody else saw it too.