Joe McQuillan: The man who has seen it all in fierce Donegal-Tyrone rivalry

Referee Joe McQuillan shows Sean Cavanagh of Tyrone a red card during the 2015 clash with Donegal. Picture: INPHO/Cathal Noonan

Seventeen years after his first Donegal-Tyrone senior game, Joe McQuillan will take charge of his 12th meeting of the pair in Sunday’s Ulster semi-final in Brewster Park.

The likes of David Coldrick (on several occasions), David Gough and Barry Cassidy have all been handed the responsibility, but it is McQuillan the referees appointment committees at provincial and national level have been all too happy to return to time after time.