IT’S not well known outside Ulster but Oisín McConville is gaining a growing reputation as a pundit who calls games right. Writing a column in a Belfast-based Sunday newspaper, his record of picking winners is impressive.

GROWING up beside St Malachy’s Church in Ballymacilroy outside Ballygawley, Mickey Harte was used to the rituals it hosted.

CROSSMAGLEN veteran Oisín McConville has made a thinly-veiled swipe at the club’s management last season, insisting current bosses Tony McEntee and Gareth O’Neill have brought back a more professional ethic into the senior panel.

FORMER Armagh star Justin McNulty was last night appointed Laois senior football manager.

LAST September, Steven McDonnell made it known he was considering his future with Armagh. He was going to draw a curtain on a storied career if the management set-up he backed was not appointed.

THE two league points stayed in Meath on Saturday night but most of the positive vibes departed across the county border with Paddy O’Rourke’s side after this thriller in Navan.

DOWN legend Paddy O’Rourke has stressed he will have no divided loyalties in his new role as Armagh manager.

Armagh defender Aaron Kernan is hopeful that the long-running search for a new senior football manager will be done and dusted within the next fortnight.

ARMAGH defender Aaron Kernan is hopeful that the long-running search for a new senior football manager will be done and dusted within the next fortnight.

JOE KERNAN was last night appointed the new manager of the Galway senior football team.

BRENDAN HACKETT was last night surprisingly named new Westmeath football manager.

Joe Kernan has not ruled out a return to inter-county management with his native Armagh at some stage, but current business and media commitments mean he will not be putting himself forward to replace the departed Peter McDonnell in the role.

ARMAGH legend Joe Kernan has ruled out a return to county management following Peter McDonnell’s shock resignation for the post.

OISÍN McCONVILLE was hurting afterwards, hurting big-time. “It seems like the end of the world right now,’’ he commented dejectedly.’’

Kilmacud Crokes 1-9

FIRST things first. Pat Gilroy’s recent comments that the All-Ireland club championship should be condensed into a calendar year are illogical, unfounded and unworkable.

FRANCIE BELLEW may have played his last game for Armagh.

AWESOME. If ever there was a sporting equivalent to that meteorological phenomenon known as the perfect storm then this was it. Drom/Broadford just happened to be the poor souls caught squarely in its path.

LET’S begin by confirming that, yes, we are tipping Crossmaglen.

A five-point haul from Oisin McConville was the difference as Crossmaglen Rangers secured their seventh Ulster Club SFC title at Brewster Park in Enniskillen today.

John McEntee will be free to play for Armagh champions Crossmaglen Rangers in Sunday's Ulster Club SFC final replay against Ballinderry Shamrocks after successfully appealing his sending-off in the drawn game.

A LOT has changed in the last year.

ST VINCENT’S captain Tomas Quinn will be warning his teammates not to take their feet off the accelerator after Sunday’s sensational win over reigning champions Crossmaglen.

DONAL MURTAGH had every reason to be proud of Crossmaglen Rangers’ sixth AIB Ulster Club football title win in Newry yesterday, having successfully carried on the torch from Joe Kernan and proving him as successful a manager as he was a player.

HARD to credit it now when they are 60 minutes away from bringing the Andy Merrigan Cup home for a fourth time but Crossmaglen couldn’t find a manager for love or money at the start of the season.

CROSSMAGLEN Rangers are hopeful of fielding an unchanged team in tomorrow’s AIB All-Ireland Club football final.

CROKE PARK’S Competitions Control Committee will decide today on a replay date for the drawn All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final between Dr Crokes and Moorefield of Kildare.

IF they sound arrogant they don’t mean too but Crossmaglen make no bones about the fact that, by qualifying for the All-Ireland Club Football final, they believe they are back where they belong.

CROSSMAGLEN, three times All-Ireland club champions between 1997 and 2000, take on Leinster representatives Portlaoise at Parnell Park tomorrow (2.30pm) in a semi-final which may very well decide the destination of the trophy.