The Ulster SFC preliminary clash between Armagh and Tyrone is set to be shorn of a few big names with Rian O’Neill and Peter Harte set to sit out the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Speculation about 35-year-old Harte\u2019s future in red and white had been swirling in recent weeks, and after their McKenna Cup opening round win over Armagh on Friday night, manager Malachy O\u2019Rourke confirmed that he wouldn\u2019t be involved in the forthcoming campaign.<\/p>\n
His counterpart Kieran McGeeney also confirmed after 0-17 to 2-13 loss for his side that O\u2019Neill was not part of the Orchard County squad currently.<\/p>\n
Older brother Ois\u00edn did pick up the player of the match award and Aaron scored a point on debut off the bench, but it wasn\u2019t enough to prevent Tyrone earning a morale-boosting win despite resting a lot of their key players.<\/p>\n
A crowd of 7,180 watched Lorcan McGarrity and Mattie Donnelly score the crucial goals in either half at the BOX-IT Athletic Grounds.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Armagh\u2019s clash with Down, scheduled for Newry on Wednesday, has been switched to Burren as the Pa\u00edrc Esler pitch is not in good enough condition to host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ulster SFC preliminary clash between Armagh and Tyrone is set to be shorn of a few big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-225389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}