Ciaran Meenagh: 'I just like getting on with things and that’s the way the players wanted it' 

Derry have experienced a 'rollercoaster seven weeks' and are now focused on a last-four game. 

HUDDLE UP: Derry Manager Ciaran Meenagh speaks to the panel after the game. Picture: INPHO/Ben Brady

No fuss, no drama. There was precious little of the former and only a modicum of the latter about Derry's All-Ireland quarter-final win against Cork. They defend and they attack as a unit, the illumination provided by players like Shane McGuigan and Conor Glass absorbed into the whole.

This nuts and bolts approach has delivered Ulster titles and now a second shot at a place in an All-Ireland final and it served as an anchor for the team when Rory Gallagher eventually stood down from his role as manager before the last provincial decider.