Dr McKenna Cup Semi-final Tyrone 2-16 Monaghan 0-8Mickey Harte made 15 changes from Sunday's league side, but Tyrone still coasted to a fifth successive appearance in the Dr McKenna Cup final at Breffni Park last night.

And the Tyrone boss produced a couple of aces late in the game, introducing fit again skipper Brian Dooher for his first appearance of the season and Philip Jordan, back from his travels in the southern hemisphere.

First-half goals from Stephen O'Neill and Declan Treanor laid the foundations for a 2-6 to 0-5 half-time lead and helped to set up a meeting with Donegal in Saturday's decider at Healy Park.

Monaghan were reduced to 14 men within six minutes of the restart when attacker Eoin Duffy picked up a second yellow card.

Dooher, out for nine months with a broken kneecap, raised the roof with two marvellous points.

TYRONE: J Curran, P McGurk, C McGinley, C McCrory, P Quinn, P Marlow, M Penrose, G Cavlan (0-1), K Hughes, A McCarron (0-1), T McGuigan (0-2), D Treanor (1-0), P Rouse (0-3, one free), S O'Neill (1-5, 2 frees, one 45), N Gormley. Subs: C Colhoun (0-1) for Gormley, D McDermott (0-1) for Treanor, B Dooher (0-2) for O'Neill, M Murphy for Hughes.

MONAGHAN: P McBennett, D Morgan (0-1), J Coyle, C Flanagan, JP Mone, J Hughes, S Fitzpatrick, P Finlay (0-3, one free, two 45s), V Corey, P Meegan (0-1, 1 free), M Daly, E Duffy, R Woods, B McKenna (0-1), N Corrigan. Subs: S Gollogly (0-1) for Daly, T Freeman (0-1) for Woods, D Mone for Meegan, D McArdle for McKenna, C McManus for Coyle

Referee: M Higgins (Fermanagh).