Reciting a decade of rosary is integral to Tyrone's preparations for games - Red Hand full-back Ronan McNamee has revealed.

Manager Mickey Harte encourages his players to participate in the pre-match ritual and McNamee believes saying the rosary plays as big a part as team meetings for the Red Hands.

"He (Harte) has a strong faith and naturally enough if you're asked to do something, you do it," the Aghyaran man told The Irish Daily Mirror.

"Everybody pulls the same way, whether it's saying the rosary or going to Mass.

"I can imagine any county set-up is a tight group. You're seeing other an awful lot and in each other's company an awful lot. It's nearly a club set-up only at county level.

"I can only imagine every county is the exact same, it's a close-knit unit and whatever stays in it, stays in it.

"The whole team's bought into it. It can't do you any harm. I can't imagine it's going to cause anybody any upset.

"Whether we do it with Tyrone or not, I go to Mass every Sunday anyway. There is no reason why everybody can't go to Mass the odd time."

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