Mickey Harte singled David Mulgrew out for special praise after he scored 2-1 in an eye-catching substitute appearance against Armagh.

"He's a good young footballer. That's why he had played a lot in the Ulster championship and it was probably a bit difficult on him not to start this one. Again, you have to look at the contribution Declan McClure gave in the Ulster final and you'd say it would have been a big thing not to let him start today either," the Tyrone manager said after his side's emphatic 18-point win.

"It's horses for courses, on different days, different people do the right things. That is some response that David Mulgrew gave to not starting the game. He looked so energised and he looked so cool.

"He finished like an out and out finisher yet he's actually a much more all around the field type of player. His first goal was the one that really settled the game for us."

Harte felt the victory, which sets up a mouth-watering All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin on August 28, made amends for last year's surprise quarter-final loss to Mayo.

"We walked out of here at the same stage last year and we were not happy people because we had put a lot into the year up to that and we'd played enough football that day to at least get a second chance and we didn't get it," he recalled.

"That's soul destroying when you think of the work and time and energy that these boys put in. This has been brewing in us for a year and we're very happy to have been able to get back and to give ourselves a chance to be playing later in August."

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