The Orchard County’s trailblazers of 1953

July 26, 2024

By Alan Rodgers STEADY progress over the previous five years provided the backdrop to a 1953 All-Ireland Final appearance which is remembered with pride by those who were in attendance at Croke Park that day. Many more in successive generations have been raised on stories of that famous occasion when Armagh ran Kerry so close […]

Armagh legend O’Neill one of the first to receive new vaccine

January 8, 2021

ULSTER’S oldest winning Anglo Celt Cup captain has become one of the first in the North to receive the new Covid-19 vaccine which is being rolled out this week. In 1950, retired GP Dr Pat O’Neill led Armagh to their first Anglo Celt Cup success for 47 years. Now aged 91, he received the jab […]