O’Rourke awaits tougher test

AUGHRIM two days ago, Omagh next weekend.

Armagh’s diary in recent weeks brings the words frying pan and fire to mind and manager Paddy O’Rourke has no doubt but that the temperature will be raised a number of degrees in Healy Park.

The Ulster county travelled south forewarned about the dangers of Wicklow’s home ground and its recent capacity to serve as a graveyard to northern hopes but it proved to be a more straightforward assignment. Saturday will be anything but.