Return of a man called Horse

Mark Gallagher

Simply ask Gavin Devlin. He lives with the rivalry every day. Each morning, as he walks into his cousin’s construction company in the Armagh town of Maghery, there are yet more Tyrone jokes, yet more jibes about what might go wrong tomorrow.

“Ah, it’s all a bit of fun. It would be worse if we weren’t in the final and I had to go to work and listen to all these Armagh lads talk about going down to Croke Park for the Ulster final. And that happened last year and nearly happened again this year.”