Cameras can come to Tyrone

Tyrone county chairman Ciaran McLaughlin has indicated that there will be no boycott of television coverage of the county's NFL games.

Red Hand boss Mickey Harte had warned of a boycott of television coverage of home National Football League games.

Harte is furious at the retrospective banning of three of his top players following a review of video replays, while the same level of scrutiny is not being applied across the board.

But it now appears certain that the county board will stop short of banning television cameras from future games.

'We understand and appreciate that Croke Park have a contractual arrangement with television companies,' said county chairman Ciaran McLaughlin.

'That's good for the exposure of our games, good for people to be able to see the games.

'However, when it comes to our games being televised and our players then being sanctioned as a result of the television coverage, we have an issue with that. We want to see every game being treated the same way.'

McLaughlin stated a preference for consistent application by Croke Park of the use of video review rather than any move on Tyrone's part towards preventing television companies from covering games.

'As we heard from Ryan McMenamin at the weekend, if Waterford and Leitrim, or whoever it is, are playing a game, let's get everybody treated the same way.

'If television cameras are at the other games, we have no problem.'