O’donnell: We will make amends.. Hands down

SEANIE O’DONNELL insists Tyrone are out to right the wrongs after Dublin crushed them at Croke Park a month ago.

Tyrone haven’t played since, but they’ll spring back into action this weekend when they face Cavan in the Ulster quarter-final at Kingspan Breffni Park.

Last time out Tyrone were beaten by 21 points (below) in a defeat joint boss Brian Dooher described as embarrassing.

O’donnell (above) said: “No Tyrone team goes out and expects to be defeated like that. I know that sounds a bit arrogant as well but you don’t.

“I don’t think any team would expect to lose by that much.

“Here, there’s plenty of learnings to take from it and we’ll move forward together as a group.

“Just the level they play at. Their basic skills for starters were higher than ours at stages. Some of the mistakes we made were when we weren’t even under pressure at times.

“That’s definitely one of the things we can work on and take away from it.

“Even just learning from Dublin, the way they play, the pace they play at, everything they do.”

O’donnell, whose sister Niamh is engaged to Conor Glass, continued: “Any Tyrone side expects to win and always comes in with the mentality of winning, and we’ll continue to do that.

“It always has been like that. Obviously it would be nice now to get a few lads back but anyone who has played so far this year has stepped up and done well.

“There’s still healthy, competitive training there for boys with jerseys up for grabs. It’s definitely good there at the minute with training.”

St. Mary’s teacher training student O’donnell is still just 20, but featured regularly throughout this year’s Division 1 campaign as Tyrone stepped up a rebuilding job with many of their 2021 All-ireland winning team injured, retired or gone off the squad.

The Trillick man joined the Tyrone squad last year.

Some big leaders still remain, like Mattie Donnelly, Peter Harte and Niall Morgan.

“You’re learning all the time, whether it’s on or off the field, just in terms of how they carry themselves,” says O’donnell.