Preserving the memory of Cormac McAnallen - a beloved brother of mythical status

It was in the spring of 2014 that Dónal McAnallen first drafted his memories of the death of his brother Cormac was in the spring of 2014.

Initially, he felt that would be the opening chapter in ‘The Pursuit of Perfection’; how Tyrone’s captain, a pivotal member of their first team to win an All-Ireland, could suddenly pass away like that in the dead of night, in his family home in The Brantry, to overwhelming shock and devastation.

Three years later, he was still re-drafting the passages.