‘What would Michaela do? She’d be positive’ - McMenamin

Tyrone won’t be playing football this weekend, but when they do there’s another unspeakable tragedy to overcome. All Star defender Ryan McMenamin spoke to John Fogarty

BARELY a few hours after Michaela McAreavey’s horrific death last Monday, her father Mickey Harte was thinking ahead.

Speaking to his selector Tony Donnelly and trainer Fergal McCann, he let it be known life was to go on for the Tyrone senior football team. There were to be no withdrawals, no cancellations. As he told the media later in the week, it’s what Michaela would have wanted.