Fermanagh star in their own fairytale

TO BORROW the words of a famous fictional Roman general: ‘Are you not entertained?’ Ulster has shone like a beacon in what has been a mediocre championship but never so bright as on Saturday evening.

The province’s capacity for the unexpected has ballooned with each week this summer and Fermanagh were only too willing to play their part at Healy Park with the kind of storyline that pops up once in a generation. Literally.

Thanks to this defeat of the league champions and provincial favourites, the Erne County will feature in the Ulster final for the first time since Billy Bingham’s Northern Ireland side bewitched the entire island in the 1982 World Cup.