Ciaran Barker: ‘When I was hitting that penalty, I asked him to help me out’

Ciaran Barker scores the winning penalty for Dungannon. Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Penalty hero Ciaran Barker turned to the heavens for the inspiration he needed to win the Tyrone senior football championship for Dungannon.

Barker’s childhood friend Cian Corrigan passed away in 2009, just six weeks short of his 12th birthday, from a rare spinal cord tumour.