Time for local heroes

CERTAIN suggestions have solidified into accepted fact in Ulster in the last decade.

For years, as Armagh and Tyrone vied for dominance on the provincial and national stages, the talk was of envious glances being cast, all of them from the Orchard county’s direction.

While Kieran McGeeney and company found it impossible to add to that first, historic All-Ireland in 2002, Tyrone found the keys to regeneration, following up their own inaugural success with two in the seasons that followed.