All Armagh ever wanted was a little respect

"Retrace your steps very accurately. Respect and good manners are not difficult qualities to carry... We strongly feel we have been disrespected and dismissed..."

The national media simply cannot see the wood for the trees. Stand back and listen carefully to the rhetoric, to the clues. Armagh’s media representative, Peter McDonnell, has been saying it all along but no one is listening.

The source of the media ban can be traced back to the launch of the Ulster Championship where McDonnell attended in his appointed role only to be ignored and snubbed. The room was full of high-profile personalities from the respective counties, surely McDonnell, ‘an underling’ was out of his depth and not worth the time to interview, ‘disrespected’ and ‘dismissed’?