Thomas Niblock

Armagh and Cavan take the biscuits with another intense Ulster SFC encounter. 

“IT’S not too often both teams leave a pitch fairly happy, but I think that’s the way it is today”.

SATURDAY, April 29, 2017. The Crusaders players are sat slumped in the changing room.

SO let’s go back to the very beginning. Five years ago, a clear winter night, I travelled to south Armagh to meet Tony McEntee and Gareth O’Neill - the managers of Crossmaglen Rangers.

ONE of Crossmaglen's most accomplished footballers has said a meeting with a British soldier once stationed in Co Armagh's 'bandit country' was evidence of just how far people in the area had moved on.