Mickey Harte’s shortest battle as Donegal win the war to knock out Tyrone

Tyrone will wonder how they didn’t get a goal late on

Tyrone's Kieran McGeary evades Ciaran Thompson and Caolan McGonigle, right, of Donegal at MacCumhaill Park in Ballybofey. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Ulster SFC Q/F: Donegal 1-13 Tyrone 1-11 

Ordinarily, football around now is taglined as ‘The Toughest’, and although in this peculiar year it’s county and not club that’s the winter focus, the same term was more than apt at the battle the quagmire of Ballybofey.