Armagh hold no fear for Derry’s O’Kane

LAST June, Gerard O’Kane jumped on a bus in Glenullin to broaden his football horizons.

The route that day took him westwards, all the way to Ballybofey, where he clicked through the turnstiles to watch his first Ulster Championship match that didn’t involve Derry since his days as a minor at the turn of the century.

It was his clubmate, Liam Bradley, ‘the Baker’, who had lured him and a host of others from the village onto the terraces at MacCumhaill Park that Sunday where Antrim were hoping to spring a surprise on their hosts.