Cavan beat Armagh to set up Tyrone date

Cavan 2-16, Armagh 0-14: For the third week in a row, some of the gloss was taken off the Ulster senior football championship’s top billing as the most fiercely competitive product in the country.

Armagh’s failure to mount a serious challenge to Cavan’s supremacy, save for a 10-minute spell midway through the second half at Kingspan Breffni Park, sucked the energy out of yesterday’s disappointing first round tie and much like Fermanagh and Tyrone’s victories in recent weeks, it became a procession.

That’s not to say the game had little going for it, because the quality of Cavan’s counter-attacking play and some of the score-taking was impressive.