Wing-back Charlie Kielt back in Derry ranks

Charlie Kielt has returned to the Derry panel ahead of Sunday’s Ulster championship first round match against Tyrone.

The 29-year-old, who hasn’t played county football since 2014, is understood to have accepted manager Damian Barton’s invitation after several players opted out of the squad last month.

Goalkeeper Eoin McNicholl, Barry McGoldrick, and Benny Heron, who took up an offer to spend the summer in America, are gone along with some fringe players, but Barton has called up fresh faces, and recalled the experienced Kielt.