Tyrone ire at Coivid questions

FEARGAL LOGAN hailed a “minor miracle” after his Tyrone side held off Kerry to reach the All-Ireland final.

With a Covid-19 outbreak in the camp forcing the game to be put back by two weeks, Tyrone lasted all the way through to the end of extra time, having already lost two players to black cards during regulation time, to seal a famous 3-14 to 0-22 victory.

They now face Mayo in the All-Ireland final on September 11 and a beaming Logan said: “Listen, I worried through the game. I thought we could run out of gas in the second half, I worried about extra-time, I worried the whole week, worried the whole month. And listen, it is a minor miracle that those guys were fit to do what they did.

“If there is any impression that there was anything but men down low with Covid, blighting us, then it is wrong. Listen, it has been a month of worry, to be perfectly honest.”

Logan’s fellow jointmanager Brian Dooher walked out of the postmatch press briefing, however, having taken exception to a question about vaccinations within the Tyrone set-up.

Dooher said: “Can I say something here? If this is coming at us to attack us here, which seems to be heading that direction, I’m not here... We made a decision based on medical advice relevant to what happened and where we were, the medical advice and we took the medical advice, we weren’t fit to field, we were told that.

“So I have a duty of care to those players

“I don’t want to get into this here now.

“But there’s been a kind of a slant here that we’ve tried to pull a fast one here. It was a factual thing based on the evidence.”

BRISTLED Brian Dooher was angry at questioning