Tyrone joint-manager Feargal Logan has described the late Art McRory as “a colossus of Tyrone football”.

McRory, who passed away yesterday at the age of 82, played with the Red Hands during the 1960s before going on to manage his county to an All-Ireland minor triumph in 1973 before having three different stints with the senior team from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.

Logan played under McRory when Tyrone were narrowly defeated by Dublin in the 1995 All-Ireland SFC final and said he pushed the county forward.

"The whole Tyrone GAA family is in deep mourning over the loss of a colossus of Tyrone football over the years," Logan told BBC Sport NI.

"As a player, as a manager, Art was involved in every Tyrone team coming up.

"He pushed Tyrone forward when it wasn't just so fashionable. He was a giant of Tyrone football.

"Art was a mentor to many, many people. He had vast experience and vast insight and knew football inside out. He was someone who was in touch with me in the last couple of days about footballing matters in Tyrone.

"That shows the depth and the regard in which he held Tyrone football and in which he was held in Tyrone football. By all the guys in the 70s, the '86 team which produced All-Stars when All-Stars weren't coming to Tyrone.

"It's a deeply, deeply sad day and everyone in Ireland will mourn Art's loss."

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