Monaghan beat Tyrone at Healy Park

Tyrone 0-9 Monaghan 1-13: Allianz Football League Division 1: It’s three years since Seamus McEneaney’s era ended and the obituaries were written for this generation of Monaghan footballers, but the team he built continues to show obvious signs of rude health under Malachy O’Rourke.

So many of those who served under ‘Banty’ finally earned their reward with an Ulster medal in 2013 and few have since walked into the sunset, their longevity symbolised by the presence here of Dick Clerkin in his 19th senior year.

Such experience should be parted with reluctantly.