{"id":465967,"date":"2026-05-25T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:22:09","slug":"mccurry-tyrone-powered-by-hurt-of-armagh-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465967\/","title":{"rendered":"McCurry: Tyrone powered by hurt of Armagh defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyrone attacker Darren McCurry said the “hurt” of the narrow defeat against Armagh had been a motivating factor as they turned over Roscommon in Hyde Park<\/a> in Round 1 of the All-Ireland SFC.<\/p>\n

Ethan Jordan’s last-minute free settled a thrilling contest, which appeared to be heading for extra-time after Paul Carey scored a levelling two-pointer for the Connacht champions.<\/p>\n

It was something of a statement win for Malachy O’Rourke’s side, who have now put in two strong championship displays after an extremely underwhelming league.<\/p>\n

“Coming in here, we knew it was going to be a massive battle,” McCurry told RT\u00c9 Sport after the game.<\/p>\n

“Them coming off a massive victory and us coming off a loss. The boys battled right to the end and we knew coming down here it was going to go right to the end.<\/p>\n

“The two goals in the first half were massive but as you’ve seen with the games all over the weekend, a five, six-point lead is nothing in today’s game.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s good for the game, it leaves it that the game is wide open right to the end and anybody can win.”<\/p>\n

Tyrone’s stock had fallen sharply after an abject league campaign, in which their expected promotion push in Division 2 failed to materialise at all, leaving them languishing in fifth place at the finish.<\/p>\n

They did rouse themselves to push Armagh to extra-time, losing by a single point to the eventual Ulster champions. After a long hiatus, they trooped down the Hyde to turn over a Roscommon team on a high after their memorable provincial triumph. <\/p>\n

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\nPeter Teague kicks a point for Tyrone in their win over Roscommon<\/p>\n

“We thought we left that game [against Armagh] behind us and obviously we were very hurt,” said McCurry.<\/p>\n

“We put a lot of emphasis in the Armagh game and as you say getting beat by a point was very hard for the boys to take.<\/p>\n

“We thought we left a lot of chances behind us that day.<\/p>\n

“We know it’s just one win, it takes a wee bit of pressure off it. We’ve been struggling to get the wins through this season.<\/p>\n

“It’s just great to see everybody out in the field here, all the Tyrone supporters that have travelled down and spent the hard-earned money.” <\/p>\n

The win sends Tyrone into Round 2A alongside the other winners from Round 1 – with Donegal, Cork and Galway already safely into the ‘winners round’ after yesterday. <\/p>\n

Goalkeeper Niall Morgan said his team still had kinks to iron out despite the victory, acknowledging that they may have benefitted from the longer lay-off ahead of the game.<\/p>\n

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“There’s plenty of rust. We’re not going to get carried away by this. You’d see Roscommon burst themselves to their limits going through Connacht.<\/p>\n

“We had a bit of a break so it probably stood to us. There’s plenty of stuff to tidy up. Conceding 2-18 and Roscommon missed a bit. We’ve plenty to tidy up. We’ll be under no illusions.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing easy about coming here. We didn’t get the usual elements that Hyde Park brings. The weather is perfect, the pitch is perfect.<\/p>\n

“These are the championship days that you look forward to and thankfully, we got the result.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrone attacker Darren McCurry said the “hurt” of the narrow defeat against Armagh had been a motivating factor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-465967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}