Full focus on Ulster task for veteran Brendan Rogers

If Rogers does catch any of his peers glancing towards the All-Ireland series, he will draw their attention to the fact that, like Slaughtneil, Portaferry drew with Cushendall over the hour only last year.

Slaughtneil's Brendan Rogers celebrates a goal. Pic: Lorcan Doherty

The story goes that, back in the day, Paddy McCormack went to school with Christy Ring in Cloyne.

But a family holiday as a 12-year-old in the early 1930s to visit an aunt in Keady, in far off Armagh, led to a relocation.