Tyrone clear debts on Garvaghey Centre of Excellence

Tyrone GAA has fully cleared all borrowings - which peaked at £2.5m (€2.9m)- on its Garvaghey Centre of Excellence facility.

The borrowings, all from Croke Park, were cleared to plan and on schedule in September.

The Garvaghey site and its facilities cost £8m (€9.3m), with over 60% of that raised within Tyrone GAA, helped by significant work from its official supporters' wing Club Tyrone.

Croke Park contributed 20% funding towards the project and the EU's LEADER Rural Development Programme funded 11% of the cost, with the Northern Ireland Assembly putting in just under 10%.

Meanwhile, fresh from the new, upgraded £220,000 (€257,000) LED floodlights at Omagh's Healy Park, Dungannon’s O’Neill Park is now set for a £330,000 (€385,000)major development on this front next year.

In September the Omagh venue unveiled a major upgrading of its lights, largely funded by Tyrone GAA, along with support from the GAA's 2022 County Capital Infrastructure Grants Programme.

The floodlight system will be installed next year and will be largely funded by Tyrone GAA, with more support from the GAA's 2023 County Capital Infrastructure Grants Programme.

As Tyrone looks to a bright future, it will also this week reflect on its past with the launch the final volume of Joe Martin’s 'The GAA in Tyrone’ history.

The county’s GAA convention on 12 December will see the fifth and final volume of the acclaimed ‘GAA in Tyrone’ series.

Martin, who passed away in August, served as Tyrone’s county historian for nearly half a century and was regarded as one of the foremost historians of the GAA.