Tyrone-Cavan match goes on

Tyrone's Dr McKenna Cup game against Cavan is to go ahead on Saturday after a compromise was reached between the county board and the Ulster Council.

Tyrone will be without the four students who have been at the centre of a storm for the past fortnight. The four players involved are UUJ trio Colm Cavanagh, Brendan Boggs and Damien McCaul, and Cathal McCarron of St Mary's.

But Tyrone will still face an Ulster Council investigation into their use of the players in breach of a Dr McKenna Cup regulation which gives the universities first call on players. A specially convened meeting of the council on Tuesday evening ended with a decision to invite the Tyrone board to answer a charge of breaching competition rules. No date has been fixed for the hearing.

"The Tyrone county committee will be contesting the alleged infraction put to us by the Ulster Council, but in the interest of the competition, we will not be playing the students against Cavan on Saturday, so that the Cavan game can proceed," said county chairman Pat Darcy in a brief statement.

Saturday's Breffni Park tie will decide who goes through to the semi-finals, with both teams unbeaten at the top of Section B.