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Tyrone football manager Mickey Harte, one of the best in the business

By
EUGENE KYNE
,
Irish Voice Newspaper Columnist
Published Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 11:31 AM
Updated Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:39 PM
Read more: Ireland, Mickey Harte, Tyrone GAA


Tyrone Manager Mickey Harte

He holds three senior All-Ireland titles as a manager -- 2003, ‘05, and ’08, and two under 21 titles in 2000 and ’01.

Add in a minor title in 1998, a National League, two All Ireland Vocational Schools, a host of Ulster Championships at all ages with a plethora of club honors. It is a partial list of the resume that is Mickey Harte’s.

A motivator, an innovator, a tactical wizard and to boot a former Tyrone minor, under-21 and senior player himself, that is Mickey Harte.

In New York this past week as part of a Maynooth College expo, the living legend took time out from his busy schedule to sit down with the Irish Voice to discuss his team, his future, his favorite players and other aspects of his legendary career.

Harte was raised in the townland of Ballymcilroy near Ballycawley and played his club football for the parish. Two of his six brothers played senior football for Tyrone before him. and his roots are steeped deep in the GAA.  

After graduating from college (he had a chance to come to New York with his friend Colm McEler one summer in the early 1970s but didn’t) he returned to the parish and managed the club as well as playing for the side.

After a major disagreement when the parish was split in two, his career as a county footballer ended while his club Glencull sat in limbo waiting to be allowed to play as a club in the Tyrone championship.

After the arrival of Father Sean Hegerty to the parish, the former Armagh manager, a truce was formed and hence the arrival of the amalgamated Errigal Ciaran football club to senior football.

It didn’t take them long to put their mark on Ulster football now that the full strength of the parish was behind it. The first year 1990, the under-16 side manager Harte took home the county title, while three years into their new existence the seniors, with Peter Canavan the star, were victorious. They went on to lose to Nemo Rangers in extra time in an All-Ireland semifinal and a formidable force in Ulster club football was born.

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