Harte: Cormac gave us final push

Kildare 1-21 Tyrone 3-16

Outplayed all day and down by five points in injury-time, the Ulster side somehow found the will and way to produce the two goals needed to clinch the win 10 years to the day their former captain was taken so suddenly.

“I have no doubt he was [looking down],” said a smiling Harte. “How else could you win a game like that? It had to be some divine intervention but that’s it, we did think about Cormac in our mass today and we did talk about him in our changing-room. He’s very much in our minds and all we wanted to do was give a creditable performance in his memory. He would be very proud about the way that finished though there would have been things he would have been disgusted with.