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Derry will embrace semi-final clash with Ulster rivals
Oakleafers face Tyrone for the fifth successive season
Derry minor manager Martin Boyle
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Derry minor football manager Martin Boyle said his team will improve and embrace their semi-final clash with neighbours Tyrone.
It will be a fifth meeting of the counties at minor level in as many seasons, with Tyrone s semi-final victory last season the only blot on Derry s recent record against the Red Hands.
After winning the first Ulster minor title in 13 years, under Damian McErlain in 2015, Derry have been in four of the last five finals.
“There is no fixture that gets the juices flowing like Derry and Tyrone, it is definitely to something to embrace,” said Boyle after Sunday s win over Armagh.
Derry and Tyrone set for Clones battle
It will be a fifth minor clash in as many years for the Ulster rivals
Enda Downey and Tyrone s Sean O Donnell in action during last season s clash in Armgh (Pic: John Merry)
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The minors of Derry and Tyrone will waste no time in getting their 2021 off the ground.
The Ulster rivals will meet in the semi-final of the 2020 championship in Clones (1.00) on Sunday, January 3.
Monaghan and Fermanagh meet later in the day (Breffni Park 4.00) in the other semi-final.
“It is brilliant to be in Clones, what a place to be playing football,” Boyle told the County Derry Post.