Harte pays tribute to Cork's desire
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte paid tribute to Cork's hunger and desire after the Rebels secured their place in the All-Ireland SFC final with victory over the defending champions at Croke Park yesterday.
Speaking in today's Irish Daily Star, Harte admitted: 'I think the collective effort of Cork beat us. Their quality and their desire - we haven't met that in a long time. We met it today and everything we had wasn't good enough to turn that over.'
Harte also conceded the absence of Sean Cavanagh through illness was a blow to his side's chances of success.
He said: 'That was very disappointing of course and in a game like this where the whole emphasis was on the physicality and size of Cork we lose one of our biggest men and leaders.
'That was a big setback but we have to live with that. We can't point to any single thing that we can say "that beat us today".'
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