After unlucky start to his 13th season, Mickey Harte forges way forward

To understand this Tyrone team, you must understand the depths from which they came.

These past nine months, Sean Cavanagh has provided the most compelling narrative of their rise from the doldrums. After losing to Armagh in last year’s qualifiers, the captain was in “tears for hours”.

In front of their own, Tyrone were, as he says, “getting thrown around in the tackle a wee bit”.