Monaghan and Tyrone give sublime two fingers to Ulster’s naysayers

Monaghan 1-18 Tyrone 1-16: Typical, really. Murphy’s Law.

The one time the TV execs decide against picking up the live rights for the big game in Ulster and it turns out to be a classic. A two-fingered salute to all those who have decried the standard and the style of football in the north.

This was an unexpected joy. Like an impromptu session at a funeral. On this evidence, the code in Ulster is a long way from dead and if it stands as an outlier when the Anglo-Celt Cup is raised later this summer, hey, we’ll always have Omagh.