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17 signs you're a sports fan from... Armagh

Including the well-worn path to Clones, Croker and Neil Lennon’s Mikasa gloves.

1. You know someone in this picture

Hill 16 on September 22, 2002. ©INPHO/Lorraine O’Sullivan

2. Your interest in the Leinster SFC has grown in recent years

©INPHO/Donall Farmer

3. Same with hurling

©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

4, The rest of the world has you to thank for penalty shoot-outs

‘You’ being Armagh’s William McCrum who came up with the idea of a spot-kick in 1890 in order to discourage cynical fouling – you hear that Spillane? Armagh discourage cynical fouls.

So, thanks for this sort of thing.

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5. You haven’t bet on your County Championship in about 16 years

Donal Murtagh helping Crossmaglen Rangers to the first of many Ulster titles against Bellaghy in 1996. © INPHO/Lorraine O’Sullivan

6. And, unless you’re from Cross’, this was the best club championship in recent memory

©INPHO/Presseye/Mark Pearce

7. Tommy Bowe may be from Monaghan, but you know well he learned to play rugby in Armagh

So Armagh’s to blame for whatever’s going on with his hair here.

Ulster also has the Royal School to thank for Declan Fitzpatrick and Willie Faloon (now of Connacht) ©INPHO/Andrew Paton

8. You love a good game of road bowls

©INPHO/Tom Honan

9. You know there’s ACTUALLY nothing wrong with Neil Lennon’s hearing…

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10. …the boys he trained with in the minor team told you

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11. You’ve heard tell of another man who excelled across several sports

The one time featherweight champion of the world Isaac  O’Neill Weir was also supposedly an acrobat and a jockey. Nicknamed ‘The Spider,  boxing would eventually be his downfall too, however.


12. There’s only one ‘Oisin’

©INPHO/Tom Honan

13. And sure, there’s no point in referring to them Kernans by their surname either

©INPHO/Presseye/Russell Pritchard

14. You wore out the road to Clones, so they had to put the Ulster final in Croke Park

©INPHO/Andrew Paton

15. Growing up, you were desperate for a Tommy Donaldson-made bike

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16. When it comes to All Irelands you know it’s about quality, not quantity

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17. If you had a vote, it’d be for Francie Bellew to be Primate of All Ireland

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