McMenamin: No panic in Tyrone

RYAN McMENAMIN has dismissed suggestions Tyrone’s days at the top of the Gaelic football tree are at an end and has declared the county’s league campaign a success despite their relegation to Division Two.

The Red Hand county claimed three All-Ireland titles, four Ulster championships and two NFL titles in the first decade of the new century but questions are now being asked about what the future holds for them.

Defeat by Dublin two days ago condemned them to tier two football for the first time since the 1990s and a high proportion of Mickey Harte’s first 15 have been going to the well for nigh on a decade now.