It was as if God had deigned it to be Armagh’s day

NOBODY could question the vital importance of Oisin McConville’s 55th minute goal in terms of inspiring a wonderful first ever All-Ireland football title for Armagh in yesterday’s Bank of Ireland championship decider in Croke Park.

However, based on their quite astonishing improvement in a second half that was expected to be controlled by the favourites it could be argued that the game was really decided by what manager Joe Kernan had to say to his players during the interval break.

After a bright start had been frustrated by some superb Kerry play and then a missed penalty by