This article explores the strong connection between Errigal Ciaran's victories in the Ulster club championship and Tyrone's success at the county and national levels.
There's a certain correlation between Errigal Ciaran breaking out of Ulster and good times rolling for Tyrone. Amazingly, for a county that has won 14 Ulster titles since the provincial club championship was initiated over 50 years ago, more than any other county in that period, only three times have their club representatives gone all the way in Ulster - and each time it was Errigal Ciaran (1993, 2002, 2024).
On the back of the club’s first title, Tyrone reached the Ulster final in 1994, their first in five years, losing to a more experienced Down side that went on to win the All-Ireland, though they won the next two provincial titles and were extremely unlucky not to go all the way in 1995, losing to Dublin by a point. Back then, Errigal’s only two county players were the Canavan brothers, Pascal and Peter. Peter’s sons, Ruairi and Darragh, are stars of the current club side and are already making significant waves with Tyrone. Their cousin, Tommy, is also a key member of the forward line; his father, Stevie, was part of that Ulster club winning side in 1993 too. Of course, Tyrone’s re-emergence in the mid-90s was backboned by their All-Ireland under-21 winning sides of 1991 and ‘92 and when they finally made the senior breakthrough more than a decade later there was a symmetry with under-21 success and Errigal Ciaran making waves beyond the county in the run up to it. Tyrone were All-Ireland under-21 champions in 2000 and ‘01. Errigal won their second Ulster title in 2002. The following year Tyrone won their first senior All-Ireland, captained by Peter Canavan, who was joined by clubmate and current Errigal manager Enda McGinley on the team
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