‘We had five members murdered throughout the Troubles’

In their honest moments this week, the men, women, and children of St Enda’s in Glengormley would admit they have been good for nothing this week outside of football.

An All-Ireland final will do that for a club, transform the place, unite everyone. When their backstory is one as bloody and grisly as this club on the northern fringes of Belfast, it becomes grimly compelling.