Tyrone and Galway all set for another cracker

THE season may be less than three months old, but those in Omagh last Sunday might have witnessed the birth of something beautiful.

Galway and Tyrone not only gave the finest exhibition of Gaelic football for quite some time, but supporters watched the evolution of a rivalry which may define the summer.

On the field, things were intense while on the sidelines, Mickey Harte and John O'Mahony engaged in a spot of verbals, as the Galway manager tried to draw the referee's attention to a foul from an already-booked Kevin Hughes. After the enthralling encounter finished in an exhausting stalemate, Harte wondered how Padraic Joyce remained on the pitch so long he was dismissed following a second booking early in the first period of injury time.