Cavanagh pays tribute to retired Tyrone ace O’Neill

Seán Cavanagh has paid tribute to the retired Stephen O’Neill.

“He is probably the most natural scorer I have ever played with. I played with (Peter) Canavan and Canavan is probably the greatest player to have ever played the game. But in terms of natural scoring instinct, especially in ’05 whenever he had a run of games for about a year and you could see his fitness building up, he was one of those guys who could win a game on his own. And he did that for us. He probably won us the All-Ireland.

“The injuries always seemed to catch up with Stevie and that is sad because we never saw his potential barring that one year. He was a fantastic player.”