Mickey Harte has revealed how he has been given the all-clear from cancer.

The Tyrone manager was diagnosed with bladder cancer in early 2015 and underwent treatment until last December. He only missed one game during that time, which was Tyrone's final Allianz League game of 2015 against Kerry.

"I got treatment, like chemotherapy, only it was directly into my bladder, it didn't go through the whole body," he told Kieran Shannon in the Irish Examiner.

"But then it wasn't working the first time around. And then it didn't work the second time around. I remember being up in Belfast and them telling me there's a 66 per cent chance of it working the first or second time but after that it goes down to 18 per cent. Thanks be to God though, that third time, it worked. "

Harte, who had to deal with immense personal grief in 2011 when his beloved daughter Michaela was murdered while on honeymoon, is currently putting the finishing touches to Tyrone's preparations for Sunday's All-Ireland SFC final against Dublin.

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