Donegal team-manager Brian McIver pointed to Kevin Hughes's red card as a galvanising factor for the Tyrone success in the Dr. McKenna Cup final at Healy Park, Omagh. "At the stage where Kevin Hughes was sent off we were still very much in the game. Hughes departed from the scene and then you would have thought they had the extra-man in the last 15 to 20 minutes of the match. But we have to learn from that. "We still have a lot of work to do in terms of our forward play. We had no direction or cohesion in the opening half, when there was a plentiful supply of ball going into the attack. I can't blame the defence or midfield for the opening half. But once we went behind coming up to the half-time break in a match we were dominating, we were always going to have an uphill battle. "Losing a McKenna Cup final so early in the season is not a disaster. We can take some good points from this game, and hopefully learn from our mistakes, and put this to good use in the future,'' he concluded. Tweet

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