All-Ireland SFC Round 2A<\/p>\n
Louth 2-20 Armagh 2-19<\/p>\n
By Dan Bannon at P\u00e1irc Grattan, Inniskeen<\/p>\n
The first championship meeting between Louth and Armagh will be remembered for a long time for contrasting reasons, in both counties.<\/p>\n
Sam Mulroy the hero once more for the Wee county.<\/p>\n
With a last ditch effort of a two pointer, from the edge of the arc, to win the game, the shot ended up in the back of the Armagh net.<\/p>\n
The last and only time Gavin Devlin’s side reached the quarter finals was on the very same pitch in Inniskeen against Cork in 2024.<\/p>\n
For Armagh, bright starts in both halves were not built upon and they will be in action again next weekend.<\/p>\n
The opening goal of the game came dramatically at that same end and it was Armagh cornerback Gareth Murphy who landed his first championship green flag.<\/p>\n
Local neighbours Louth would not go away and by piling the pressure, Devlin’s team found their avenue.<\/p>\n
Aerially, they had a handle on Rafferty’s arrow, to be fair to the Grange man he was a late call up for Blaine Hughes. Louth\u2019s Ciaran Downey and James Maguire profited handsomely with the possession to grab three first half points a piece.<\/p>\n
Louth led by two at the break, and deservedly so. Armagh made Louth wait at the break and Oisin Conaty soon levelled after Craig Lennon\u2019s point from the throw in.<\/p>\n
Pouncing on a turnover Conaty finished at the second time of asking and it looked to be the key moment in the game. Oisin O\u2019Neill added to a margin, but dogged Louth responded.<\/p>\n
Lennon somehow kept possession, for it to fall in the path of Dara McDonnell, the centre back took the lifeline.<\/p>\n
Yet, Ross McQuillan, son of former Louth coach Martin, and a two pointer from Jarly Og Burns had Armagh ahead.<\/p>\n
The Ulster champions would whittle away the seconds, but when Louth found themselves with a shot at glory, Mulroy took it.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Louth: Sam Mulroy 1-4 (1 2ptf), Dara McDonnell 1-3, Ciaran Downey 0-4, James Maguire 0-3, Craig Lennon 0-3, Conor Early 0-1 Ryan Burns 0-1 Conor Grimes 0-1.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Armagh: Ross McQuillan 0-4, Oisin Conaty 1-1, Cian McConville 0-3 (1f), Gareth Murphy 1-0, Ethan Rafferty 0-2 (1tpf) Gareth Murphy 1-0, Jarly Og Burns 0-3 (1tp), Jason Duffy 0-2, Conor Turbitt 0-2 (1f), Oisin O\u2019Neill 0-1, Darragh McMullan 0-1.<\/p>\n
Louth: Niall McDonnell; Emmett Carolan, Donal McKenny, Daire Nally; Conall McKeever, Dara McDonnell, Craig Lennon; Sean Callaghan, Paul Mathews, James Maguire, Sam Mulroy, Conor Grimes; Kieran McArdle, Ciaran Downey, Ryan Burns.<\/p>\n
Subs: Ciaran Byrne for Grimes (50), Tommy Durnin for Mathews (50), Tadhg McDonnell for McKeever (52), Conor Early for Callaghan (58), Conall McCaul for Burns (66).<\/p>\n
Armagh: Ethan Rafferty; Peter McGrane, Aaron McKay, Gareth Murphy; Ross McQuillan, Joe McElroy, Jason Duffy; Jarly Og Burns,, Tiernan Kelly; Greg McCabe, Darragh McMullan, Tomas McCormack; Oisin Conaty, Conor Turbitt, Cian McConville.<\/p>\n
Subs: Oisin O\u2019Neill for McCabe (blood 30-41), O\u2019Neill for Kelly (41), Daniel Magee for McCormack (59), Rory Grugan for McQuillan (64), Aidan Forker for McConville (67).<\/p>\n
Referee: Conor Lane (Cork).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC Round 2A Louth 2-20 Armagh 2-19 By Dan Bannon at P\u00e1irc Grattan, Inniskeen The first championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-499796","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\/499796","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=499796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}