Tyrone manager Mickey Harte praised his players for keeping their cool during yesterday's stormy All-Ireland football qualifier encounter with Tipperary.

With memories of May's controversial All-Ireland U21FC final between the same two counties still fresh, there were a number of flashpoints, but the Red Hands kep their discipline as they cruised to a surprisingly comfortable 12-point victory.

"I was very happy with our players and how disciplined they were," Harte told The42 website.

"It's not easy sometimes when these schemozzles get started, people can lose the plot and lose their place in the team and stuff like that.

"I'd be very happy with the way they dealt with that side of the contest. I think they showed in the second half that far from distracting our players, it maybe galvanised them."

Harte was always confident Tyrone would win, even when they only led by a point after playing with the wind in the first half.

"Strangely enough, even though it was a very tight game at half-time, I felt we were playing a lot of good football and probably just mishandling the ball at vital times up front.

"We were picking poor options, playing the ball into the corners where it was difficult to get a shot from. People were taking bad shot selections so there was a lot of things going on that we knew we could improve on but we were very happy with the workrate and the effort they were putting in.

"Unforced errors were our biggest problem and our lack of clinical finishing, which left a very big game on our hands at half-time.

"We had to sit down and do something about it. Thankfully the players did that."

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