No going back for Cross

IN Crossmaglen, it felt like winter for the first time in five years. Michael McConville remembers the late 90's when the town didn't feel the season pass.

No going back for Cross
Sat, 19 Feb, 2005 - 00:00
Mark Gallagher

Back then, life there pulsed to the rhythms of the club championship as people waited for yet another assault on the All-Ireland club championship.

"They were great days and they gave everyone here great memories, times nobody will ever forget," the Crossmaglen manager sighs. After they swept Na Fianna aside with an hour of perfect football on Paddy's Day in 2000, the club disappeared from the national radar.

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