All-Ireland fever has hit a Cookstown secondary school where three members of staff are set to represent Tyrone in this weekend's football final.
The community at Holy Trinity College have spent this week hanging bunting and erecting flags in anticipation of Saturday's match, which will see the Red Hands take on Mayo in Dublin.
Unsurprisingly, excitement has been building at the school with staff and pupils having a bigger interest in the game as two teachers and a caretaker are involved in the Tyrone squad.
These include, Kieran McGeary, a PE teacher at the college, who is also vice-captain of the Tyrone team.
Martin Girr, who is head of history, and school caretaker Martin Gervin, are both backroom staff for the squad, involved in performance analysis.
Michael Cassidy, Michael O'Neill, Hugh Pat McGeary and Frank Burns, who are all past pupils of the college, are also on the Tyrone team.
Speaking to The Irish News, former Tyrone captain, Peter Canavan, who is director of sport at Holy Trinity College, said there is "great excitement among staff and pupils around the school".
"The flags and bunting are all up," he said.
"We even managed to get one of the Derry caretakers putting up Tyrone flags around the school.
"To have past pupils playing and to have a member of staff and two members in the back room, it's great for the school".
Mr Canavan, who captained Tyrone to All-Ireland glory in 2003 before he retired following another All-Ireland win in 2005, said the school's secret to creating so many All-Ireland footballers was that it had "great coaches who give a lot of their time".
"East Tyrone is football mad and that's where Cookstown is, in the middle of east Tyrone and we are surrounded by a lot of clubs who take their football very serious and have great underage systems in place and we benefit from that".
The Gaelic football legend, who will be at Croke Park on Saturday working as an analyst for Sky, said it is a "50/50 game".
"It is going to be close and will go down to the wire," he said.
"We hope to have Sam Maguire back in Cookstown on Monday".
