Familiarity breeds contempt between Derry, Tyrone, Armagh and Cavan

They must stop meeting like this. Seriously, they must. For the good of themselves and the game, if there’s anything the pairs of Derry and Tyrone and Armagh and Cavan need it’s space from each other. But such thinking is wishful.

This Saturday, Derry and Tyrone clash for what will be the third time already this year having already been involved in a couple of controversy-tinged McKenna Cup bouts.

On the horizon constantly looms their Ulster quarter-final at the same Omagh venue on May 22.