All-Ireland SFC<\/p>\n
Armagh 1-18 Derry 1-13<\/p>\n
By Michael McMullan<\/p>\n
ULSTER champions Armagh began their Al-Ireland campaign with victory over Derry on Saturday night in the BOX-IT Athletic Grounds.<\/p>\n
They led by six at half-time with Derry pulling it back to three points when Armagh were down a man after Jason Duffy\u2019s black card.<\/p>\n
Conor Doherty\u2019s third point after 53 minutes gave Derry the chance to flick the game but Joe McElroy and Oisin Conaty hit back.<\/p>\n
That was enough to pour water on any Derry comeback hopes.<\/p>\n
Paul Cassidy and Ethan Doherty hit two pointers but Armagh used their experience to see out the game.<\/p>\n
Derry hit the front with a Conor Glass point but a electrifying Armagh were dangerous on the break all the way through the half.<\/p>\n
Turbitt kicked a two pointer as Kieran McGeeney\u2019s side took full control of the game.<\/p>\n
Two Tom\u00e1s McCormick points widened the gap before Jason Duffy made it 0-5 to 0-1.<\/p>\n
Armagh added a sixth from Darragh McMullen before Derry were given a passage back into the game.<\/p>\n
A short Hughes kick-out to Murphy was intercepted by Murray who raced through to score as easy goal and there was just a point in it.<\/p>\n
Derry\u2019s bright moment was short-lived when Tiernan Kelly placed a cracking shot to the top corner.<\/p>\n
Derry were wasteful at one end with Conaty (two-pointer) and Jarly \u00d3g Burns putting Armagh on their way to a 1=9 to 1-3 interval lead<\/p>\n
Lachlan Murray aggravated a first half dead leg when he kicked Derry\u2019s first score of the second half.<\/p>\n
Cian McConville, Armagh\u2019s link man all day, made a score for Turbitt and there was six in it again.<\/p>\n
McGuigan and Conor Doherty (2) kicked points but Armagh were always able to have a response with Oisin O\u2019Neill becoming Armagh\u2019s 11th scorer on the day.<\/p>\n
Both teams go into Tuesday draws for Rounds 2A and 2B if the race fore Sam.<\/p>\n
Scorers:<\/p>\n
Derry: Lachlann Murray 1-2, Conor Doherty 0-3, Ethan Doherty, Paul Cassidy 0-2tp each, Conor Glass, Niall Loughlin, Shane McGiugan and Sean Young 0-1 each<\/p>\n
Armagh: Conor Turbitt 0-4 (1tp), Oisin Conaty 0-3 (1tp), Tiernan Kelly 1-0, Blaine Hughes (tpf), Jason Duffy, Tom\u00e1s McCormack 0-2 each, Andrew Murnin, Jarly \u00d3g Burns, Darragh McMullen, Oisin O\u2019Neill (f) and Joe McElroy 0-1 each<\/p>\n
Derry: Shea McGuckin; Shea Downey, Ruair\u00ed Forbes, Conor McCluskey; Conor Doherty Gareth McKinless Paudi McGrogan Eoin McEvoy, Brendan Rogers; Ethan Doherty, Conor Glass, Niall Toner; Niall Loughlin, Shane McGuigan, Lachlan Murray<\/p>\n
Subs: Paul Cassidy for Downey (43), Dan Higgins for Toner (50), James Sargent for Forbes (57), Sean Young for Murray (56)<\/p>\n
Armagh: Blaine Hughes; Peter McGrane, Aaron McKay, Gareth Murphy; Joe McElroy, Tiernan Kelly, Greg McCabe; Jarly \u00d3g Burns, Andrew Murnin; Cian McConville, Darragh McMullen, Tom\u00e1s McCormack; Conor Turbitt, Jason Duffy, Oisin Conaty<\/p>\n
Subs: Ross McQuillan for McCabe (56), Oisin O\u2019Neill for Duffy (60), Rory Grugan for Murnin (67)<\/p>\n
Referee: Martin McNally (Monaghan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC Armagh 1-18 Derry 1-13 By Michael McMullan ULSTER champions Armagh began their Al-Ireland campaign with victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-475568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475568","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=475568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}