Happy All-Ireland football final day, one and all.
Armagh and Galway are going head-to-head for the Sam Maguire Cup at Croke Park this afternoon.
It has been over two decades since both counties lifted the silverware: Galway — inspired by a certain Pádraic Joyce — last won in 2001, while Kieran McGeeney captained Armagh to glory in 2002.
This is a novel pairing, but the counties have plenty of recent championship history and they renew their rivalry on the biggest stage today.
Throw-in is at 3.30pm, with the action live on RTÉ 2, BBC2 NI and GAAGO, but we’ll keep you up to date right here.
Galway captain Sean Kelly is named to start. Laszlo Geczo / INPHO
Laszlo Geczo / INPHO / INPHO
Here are the teams, as announced on Thursday and Friday.
One change a-piece from the semi-finals: Sean Kelly is named to start for Galway after a recent injury, while Connaire Mackin returns to the Armagh team.
There’s so many storylines going into this one. Will it be Galway ending a 23-year wait for All-Ireland glory? For Armagh, it’s 22, as they chase a second-ever title following that 2002 success.
The Tribe were here in 2022, the Orchard not nice ’03.
PJ v Geezer.
Opportunity. Rivalry. Glory. Let’s go.
28 Jul
3:23PM
The pre-match formalities are underway.
Time to call it…
Poll Results:
Galway win (133)
Armagh win (66)
Draw (13)
28 Jul
3:29PM
Armagh break away from the parade as they pass Hill 16 and the stadium explodes. Galway soon follow them, and it’s time for the national anthem. What an occasion.
28 Jul
3:31PM
Former Armagh footballer Pádraig O’Neill is remembered before Amhrán na bhFiann. The uncle of Rian, Oisin and Callum O’Neill, he died recently. An emotional moment.
28 Jul
3:31PM
Woah, the noise after the anthem. It’s go time!
28 Jul
3:32PM
Throw-in: Sean Hurson gets us underway, Galway claim and we’re off.
28 Jul
3:34PM
Galway 0-1 Armagh 0-0
3 mins – Paul Conroy with the first point of the All-Ireland football final. Great score.
Armagh sit right back and Galway own possession early on, before picking their moment.
28 Jul
3:36PM
Galway 0-1 Armagh 0-1
3 mins – Joe McElroy fists over at the other end to get Amargh off the mark. They get away from the short kick-out and level matters with their first attempt.
28 Jul
3:37PM
Galway 0-2 Armagh 0-1
6 mins – Liam Silke off the left after more patient Galway build-up.
28 Jul
3:39PM
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-1
7 mins – Rob Finnerty scores his first free of the afternoon, from just outside the D. Came after an Armagh kickout malfunction.
28 Jul
3:41PM
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-2
8 mins – Oisín Conaty with his second of the day for Armagh. Apologies, there was a mix-up on RTÉ commentary, so just to confirm it was Conaty, not McElroy, with the opening effort.
28 Jul
3:42PM
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
10 mins – Ben Crealy finishes off a fine team score and we’re level.
28 Jul
3:43PM
Galway substitution: Finnerty is forced off through injury, Johnny Heaney comes in.
28 Jul
3:44PM
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
12 mins – First wide of the day, Aidan Forker for Armagh. Came after Galway lost a second long kick-out, with Armagh moving the ball nicely but they didn’t have the end product on this occasion.
28 Jul
3:48PM
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
16 mins – Galway with a wide of their own, Cillian McDaid.
Side note: there is an injured seagull in the Galway half.
28 Jul
3:50PM
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
18 mins – Damien Comer wide after a HawkEye decision. Remains over 10 minutes since Galway last scored — good defending from them earlier to clear their lines as Armagh threatened.
28 Jul
3:52PM
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
20 mins – Conor Turbitt misses the opportunity to put Armagh in front with a relatively straightforward free-kick. Some puzzled by the awarding of the free after a collision between Rian O’Neill and Céin Darcy.
28 Jul
3:53PM
Galway 0-4 Armagh 0-3
21 mins – Darcy fires over at the other end. Big score for the Tribe after some great football.
28 Jul
3:56PM
Galway 0-4 Armagh 0-3
24 mins – Shane Walsh tails a free wide off his left. Armagh fouled during a promising Galway break, which came after Darcy won a throw-up after a scramble in their own half as Armagh attacked.
28 Jul
3:57PM
Galway 0-4 Armagh 0-4
25 mins – Forker levels it, ending a 14-minute wait for an Armagh score.
28 Jul
3:58PM
Galway 0-5 Armagh 0-4
26 mins – John Maher puts Galway in front after brilliant work from Dylan McHugh. Maher is having a big game, and he’s on the scoresheet now.
28 Jul
3:59PM
Galway 0-5 Armagh 0-5
27 mins – Barry McCambridge levels it after Armagh get another short kickout away. Level for the fourth time.
Galway's Shane Walsh is challenged by Ben Crealy of Armagh. Tom Maher / INPHO
Tom Maher / INPHO / INPHO
28 Jul
4:01PM
An important update I should have brought you earlier – the seagull is off the pitch.
28 Jul
4:02PM
Galway 0-5 Armagh 0-5
30 mins – Walsh miscues his second free of the day. From a tight angle on the right, off the right boot, but he misses on the nearside.
28 Jul
4:04PM
Galway 0-6 Armagh 0-5
32 mins – Conroy with another monstrous effort. Inspirational stuff.
Shortly beforehand, Armagh threatened but Turbitt just couldn’t gather a long ball inside.
28 Jul
4:05PM
Galway 0-6 Armagh 0-5
33 mins – McElroy misses a straightforward attacking mark after a superb ball inside from Rian O’Neill.
28 Jul
4:07PM
Galway 0-6 Armagh 0-6
35 mins – Crealy levels matters after good work from Conaty. Armagh attack quickly from a free-kick, awarded for a Damien Comer throw ball in the corner.
James Crombie / INPHO
James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO
28 Jul
4:11PM
So, that’s that for the first half. It was cagey and low-scoring, as many expected, with little to separate the sides. Let’s hope it opens up and gets a little more exciting.
28 Jul
4:11PM
Shane Walsh, Damien Comer, Rian O'Neill & Conor Turbitt all scoreless so far.
Not many beforehand would have had Ben Crealey, Oisin Conaty & Paul Conroy as the game's top scorers by half-time of All-Ireland final, all with 0-2 apiece.
John Maher and Oisin Conaty the players being lauded on RTÉ. No changes for the second half, they say.
28 Jul
4:26PM
Second-half: We’re back underway.
28 Jul
4:28PM
Galway 0-7 Armagh 0-6
37 mins – Another huge score from Conroy. He has been outstanding.
28 Jul
4:29PM
Galway 0-8 Armagh 0-6
38 mins – Cillian McDaid with a crucial score, all came from a turnover and they broke at pace.
28 Jul
4:30PM
Galway 0-8 Armagh 0-7
39 mins – The influential Conaty responds for Armagh.
28 Jul
4:31PM
Galway 0-8 Armagh 0-8
41 mins – Superb score from Rian O’Neill.
28 Jul
4:33PM
Galway 0-9 Armagh 0-8
42 mins – Walsh with a beauty on the turn to open his account. “Outstanding,” Éamonn Fitzmaurice says on RTÉ commentary.
28 Jul
4:34PM
Galway 0-9 Armagh 0-9
43 mins – Tiernan Kelly for Armagh. Tit for tat. Level for the seventh time.
28 Jul
4:36PM
Galway substitution: Sean Kelly for Jack Glynn, huge Galway roar for the captain.
28 Jul
4:37PM
Galway 0-10 Armagh 0-9
45 mins – Third time lucky for Walsh off a free. Armagh scramble defence after a turnover in the other half, but Hurson awards the free.
28 Jul
4:37PM
Armagh substitutions: Stefan Campbell and Ross McQuillan are in.
28 Jul
4:38PM
GOAL! Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-10 (Aaron McKay 47)
Instant impact from Campbell as he injects pace up the left-hand side and finds the incoming McKay, who palms home.
28 Jul
4:41PM
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-10
50 mins – Rory Grugan is down receiving treatment, the stretcher is out. Looks like Oisin O’Neill is preparing to come on.
28 Jul
4:43PM
Armagh substitution: Confirmation of that change, O’Neill in for Grugan, who is stretchered off to a big reception. Talk of a knee injury.
Jarly Óg Burns may be coming on shortly, too.
28 Jul
4:45PM
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-10
54 mins – A Rian O’Neill free from distance tails wide.
28 Jul
4:46PM
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
55 mins – Darcy brings Galway within a point, first score since the goal.
28 Jul
4:48PM
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
58 mins – A really poor wide from Shane Walsh. Galway had serious momentum on the break after a turnover, Maher central to it all, but it all ends in a Walsh miss.
28 Jul
4:50PM
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
59 mins – Darcy tails wide, with HawkEye confirming. Galway had another promising break there but were held up. Walsh won a free on the ’45 but went short — they really should have got a score off that.
28 Jul
4:51PM
Armagh substitution: Jarly Óg Burns in for Connaire Mackin.
28 Jul
4:52PM
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
62 mins – Walsh backs himself from at attacking mark from distance, but drops it short.
28 Jul
4:53PM
Armagh 1-10 Galway 0-11
62 mins – Niall Grimley with a big score for Armagh. Two point game. Serious swing after Walsh’s latest miss.
28 Jul
4:54PM
Armagh 1-10 Galway 0-11
63 mins – Galway miss another scoring chance, McDaid this time.
28 Jul
4:55PM
Here’s the goal that has Armagh in the driving seat:
Instant impact from Soupy Campbell as he lays it up for Aaron McKay to find the net. We have the first goal of this year's All-Ireland football final.
Incredible scenes as Armagh win their second All-Ireland football title — and first since 2002. Absolute elation as they celebrate. ‘Glory Days’ rings out.
Jarly Óg Burns had the match ball at the end, and there’s an emotional moment as he embraces his father, GAA President Jarlath Burns, in the stands.
Rian O’Neill with a brilliant interview on RTÉ, paying tribute to his late uncle Pádraig amidst the madness.
What a win for Armagh, another All-Ireland final defeat for Galway after 2022 and it’s fair to say they’ll have some regrets.
28 Jul
5:16PM
Amazing achievement by Armagh. All-Ireland senior champions after four championship penalty shootout defeats in last 25 months. Remarkable resilience.
Jarlath Burns with a rousing speech from the steps of the Hogan Stand. “This belongs to you. Today is your day, because the GAA is where we all belong,” he tells GAA volunteers as he prepares to present his countyman, Aidan Forker, with the Sam Maguire Cup.
“Today belongs to Ard Mhaca,” he roars, with a big shout out to Kieran McGeeney.
28 Jul
5:20PM
Croke Park erupts as Forker lifts the silverware. Emotions running high as the RTÉ cameras flash to Geezer.
28 Jul
5:21PM
“Today we’re not dreaming, we are 2024 All-Ireland champions,” the captain beams.
28 Jul
5:22PM
ARMAGH CELEBRATED WILDLY after holding off Galway’s challenge to claim the county’s second-ever All-Ireland senior football title.
You can read Fintan O’Toole’s match report on The 42here>
28 Jul
5:24PM
Relive the madness at the end:
Drama right until the end of the 2024 All-Ireland football final.
Scenes of joy as Armagh are crowned champions for just the second time.
We’re gonna wrap up the liveblog here, but Fintan O’Toole’s match report is available to read on The 42 and plenty of analysis, reaction and colour will follow this evening and over the next few days.
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As it happened: Armagh v Galway, All-Ireland senior football final
Happy All-Ireland football final day, one and all.
Armagh and Galway are going head-to-head for the Sam Maguire Cup at Croke Park this afternoon.
It has been over two decades since both counties lifted the silverware: Galway — inspired by a certain Pádraic Joyce — last won in 2001, while Kieran McGeeney captained Armagh to glory in 2002.
This is a novel pairing, but the counties have plenty of recent championship history and they renew their rivalry on the biggest stage today.
Throw-in is at 3.30pm, with the action live on RTÉ 2, BBC2 NI and GAAGO, but we’ll keep you up to date right here.
Team News
Here are the teams, as announced on Thursday and Friday.
One change a-piece from the semi-finals: Sean Kelly is named to start for Galway after a recent injury, while Connaire Mackin returns to the Armagh team.
We’ll update you on any late changes.
Armagh
1. Blaine Hughes (Carrickcruppin)
2. Paddy Burns (Burren) 3. Aaron McKay (Dromintee) 4. Barry McCambridge (Clann Eireann)
5. Connaire Mackin (Shane O’Neill’s) 6. Tiernan Kelly (Clann Eireann) 7. Aidan Forker (Maghery)
8. Niall Grimley (Madden) 9. Ben Crealey (Maghery)
10. Joe McElroy (Armagh Harps) 11. Rian O’Neill (Crossmaglen) 12. Oisín Conaty (Tír nan Óg)
13. Rory Grugan (Ballymacnab) 14. Andrew Murnin (Naomh Pól) 15. Conor Turbitt (Clann Eireann)
Subs:
16. Ethan Rafferty (Grange)
17. Greg McCabe (Shane O’Neill’s)
18. Peter McGrane (Ballyhegan)
19. Ciaran Higgins (Maghery)
20. Ross McQuillan (Cullyhanna)
21. Shane McPartlan (Clann na Gael)
22. Jason Duffy (Cullyhanna)
23. Oisín O’Neill (Crossmaglen)
24. Stefan Campbell (Clann na Gael)
25. Aidan Nugent (Cullyhanna)
26. Jarly Og Burns (Silverbridge)
Galway
1. Connor Gleeson (Dunmore MacHales)
2. Johnny McGrath (Caherlistrane), 3, Seán Fitzgerald (Bearna), 4. Jack Glynn (Claregalway)
5. Dylan McHugh (Corofin), 6. Liam Silke (Corofin) 7. Seán Mulkerrin (Oileáin Árann)
8. Paul Conroy (St James’), 9. Sean Kelly (Moycullen) – capt
10. Matthew Tierney (Oughterard), 11. John Maher (Salthill-Knocknacarra), 12. Cillian McDaid (Monivea Abbey)
13. Robert Finnerty (Salthill Knocknacarra), 14. Damien Comer (Annaghdown), 15. Shane Walsh (Kilmacud Crokes)
Subs:
16. Conor Flaherty (Claregalway)
17. John Daly (Mountbellew/Moylough)
18. Eoghan Kelly (Moycullen)
19. Daniel O’Flaherty (Salthill Knocknacarra)
20. Kieran Molloy (Corofin)
21. Cathal Sweeney (Salthill Knocknacarra)
22. Cein Darcy (Ballyboden-St Enda’s)
23. Johnny Heaney (Killannin)
24. Liam Ó Conghaile (Spiddal)
25. Tomo Culhane (Salthill Knocknacarra)
26. Niall Daly (Kilconly)
Galway change
Céin Darcy replaces Sean Kelly, just like the semi-final.
Armagh start as selected.
Fintan O’Toole and Declan Bogue are in situ at Croke Park for us to document the day — and by all accounts, the atmosphere is electric.
The 42‘s GAA team have been busy all week through the build-up. Catch up on some last-minute pre-match reading here.
Nice touch by Galway. All extended panel members are wearing the number 27.
Just under 10 minutes to go. How are we feeling?
There’s so many storylines going into this one. Will it be Galway ending a 23-year wait for All-Ireland glory? For Armagh, it’s 22, as they chase a second-ever title following that 2002 success.
The Tribe were here in 2022, the Orchard not nice ’03.
PJ v Geezer.
Opportunity. Rivalry. Glory. Let’s go.
The pre-match formalities are underway.
Time to call it…
Poll Results:
Armagh break away from the parade as they pass Hill 16 and the stadium explodes. Galway soon follow them, and it’s time for the national anthem. What an occasion.
Former Armagh footballer Pádraig O’Neill is remembered before Amhrán na bhFiann. The uncle of Rian, Oisin and Callum O’Neill, he died recently. An emotional moment.
Woah, the noise after the anthem. It’s go time!
Throw-in: Sean Hurson gets us underway, Galway claim and we’re off.
Galway 0-1 Armagh 0-0
3 mins – Paul Conroy with the first point of the All-Ireland football final. Great score.
Armagh sit right back and Galway own possession early on, before picking their moment.
Galway 0-1 Armagh 0-1
3 mins – Joe McElroy fists over at the other end to get Amargh off the mark. They get away from the short kick-out and level matters with their first attempt.
Galway 0-2 Armagh 0-1
6 mins – Liam Silke off the left after more patient Galway build-up.
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-1
7 mins – Rob Finnerty scores his first free of the afternoon, from just outside the D. Came after an Armagh kickout malfunction.
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-2
8 mins – Oisín Conaty with his second of the day for Armagh. Apologies, there was a mix-up on RTÉ commentary, so just to confirm it was Conaty, not McElroy, with the opening effort.
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
10 mins – Ben Crealy finishes off a fine team score and we’re level.
Galway substitution: Finnerty is forced off through injury, Johnny Heaney comes in.
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
12 mins – First wide of the day, Aidan Forker for Armagh. Came after Galway lost a second long kick-out, with Armagh moving the ball nicely but they didn’t have the end product on this occasion.
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
16 mins – Galway with a wide of their own, Cillian McDaid.
Side note: there is an injured seagull in the Galway half.
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
18 mins – Damien Comer wide after a HawkEye decision. Remains over 10 minutes since Galway last scored — good defending from them earlier to clear their lines as Armagh threatened.
Galway 0-3 Armagh 0-3
20 mins – Conor Turbitt misses the opportunity to put Armagh in front with a relatively straightforward free-kick. Some puzzled by the awarding of the free after a collision between Rian O’Neill and Céin Darcy.
Galway 0-4 Armagh 0-3
21 mins – Darcy fires over at the other end. Big score for the Tribe after some great football.
Galway 0-4 Armagh 0-3
24 mins – Shane Walsh tails a free wide off his left. Armagh fouled during a promising Galway break, which came after Darcy won a throw-up after a scramble in their own half as Armagh attacked.
Galway 0-4 Armagh 0-4
25 mins – Forker levels it, ending a 14-minute wait for an Armagh score.
Galway 0-5 Armagh 0-4
26 mins – John Maher puts Galway in front after brilliant work from Dylan McHugh. Maher is having a big game, and he’s on the scoresheet now.
Galway 0-5 Armagh 0-5
27 mins – Barry McCambridge levels it after Armagh get another short kickout away. Level for the fourth time.
An important update I should have brought you earlier – the seagull is off the pitch.
Galway 0-5 Armagh 0-5
30 mins – Walsh miscues his second free of the day. From a tight angle on the right, off the right boot, but he misses on the nearside.
Galway 0-6 Armagh 0-5
32 mins – Conroy with another monstrous effort. Inspirational stuff.
Shortly beforehand, Armagh threatened but Turbitt just couldn’t gather a long ball inside.
Galway 0-6 Armagh 0-5
33 mins – McElroy misses a straightforward attacking mark after a superb ball inside from Rian O’Neill.
Galway 0-6 Armagh 0-6
35 mins – Crealy levels matters after good work from Conaty. Armagh attack quickly from a free-kick, awarded for a Damien Comer throw ball in the corner.
One minute added on, Galway have the ball.
Half-time: Galway 0-6 Armagh 0-6
So, that’s that for the first half. It was cagey and low-scoring, as many expected, with little to separate the sides. Let’s hope it opens up and gets a little more exciting.
“Tense” is how the RTÉ panel immediately describe it.
Stats relatively even, but Galway dominate the possession:c66% to 34%.
The main character:
Catch up on the first-half action here:
John Maher and Oisin Conaty the players being lauded on RTÉ. No changes for the second half, they say.
Second-half: We’re back underway.
Galway 0-7 Armagh 0-6
37 mins – Another huge score from Conroy. He has been outstanding.
Galway 0-8 Armagh 0-6
38 mins – Cillian McDaid with a crucial score, all came from a turnover and they broke at pace.
Galway 0-8 Armagh 0-7
39 mins – The influential Conaty responds for Armagh.
Galway 0-8 Armagh 0-8
41 mins – Superb score from Rian O’Neill.
Galway 0-9 Armagh 0-8
42 mins – Walsh with a beauty on the turn to open his account. “Outstanding,” Éamonn Fitzmaurice says on RTÉ commentary.
Galway 0-9 Armagh 0-9
43 mins – Tiernan Kelly for Armagh. Tit for tat. Level for the seventh time.
Galway substitution: Sean Kelly for Jack Glynn, huge Galway roar for the captain.
Galway 0-10 Armagh 0-9
45 mins – Third time lucky for Walsh off a free. Armagh scramble defence after a turnover in the other half, but Hurson awards the free.
Armagh substitutions: Stefan Campbell and Ross McQuillan are in.
GOAL! Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-10 (Aaron McKay 47)
Instant impact from Campbell as he injects pace up the left-hand side and finds the incoming McKay, who palms home.
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-10
50 mins – Rory Grugan is down receiving treatment, the stretcher is out. Looks like Oisin O’Neill is preparing to come on.
Armagh substitution: Confirmation of that change, O’Neill in for Grugan, who is stretchered off to a big reception. Talk of a knee injury.
Jarly Óg Burns may be coming on shortly, too.
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-10
54 mins – A Rian O’Neill free from distance tails wide.
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
55 mins – Darcy brings Galway within a point, first score since the goal.
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
58 mins – A really poor wide from Shane Walsh. Galway had serious momentum on the break after a turnover, Maher central to it all, but it all ends in a Walsh miss.
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
59 mins – Darcy tails wide, with HawkEye confirming. Galway had another promising break there but were held up. Walsh won a free on the ’45 but went short — they really should have got a score off that.
Armagh substitution: Jarly Óg Burns in for Connaire Mackin.
Armagh 1-9 Galway 0-11
62 mins – Walsh backs himself from at attacking mark from distance, but drops it short.
Armagh 1-10 Galway 0-11
62 mins – Niall Grimley with a big score for Armagh. Two point game. Serious swing after Walsh’s latest miss.
Armagh 1-10 Galway 0-11
63 mins – Galway miss another scoring chance, McDaid this time.
Here’s the goal that has Armagh in the driving seat:
Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-11
66 mins – Oisin O’Neill with a remarkable score after Burns canters into open space and sets him.
Galway substitutions: Tomo Culhane and Daniel O Flaherty in for Comer and Tierney.
Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-11
68 mins – Darcy slots over for Galway, their first score in 13 minutes to put them within two.
Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-13
69 mins – McDaid with a huge score into Hill 16. One in it.
Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-13
70 mins – Walsh drops another free short.
Aaron McKay sees yellow for a high challenge on McDaid.
SIX MINUTES added on.
Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-13
72 mins – Campbell wide. Armagh still lead by one.
Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-13
74 mins – Galway in possession, waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce.
Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-13
75 mins – McHugh hits the post!!!! Outside of the right. Still one in it, was that their chance?
Subs: Kieran Molloy and Jason Duffy come in.
Unreal drama!!! Galway have a chance, Armagh turn them over and break. Post. One in it still. 76 mins.
Full-time: Armagh 1-11 Galway 0-13
Incredible scenes as Armagh win their second All-Ireland football title — and first since 2002. Absolute elation as they celebrate. ‘Glory Days’ rings out.
Jarly Óg Burns had the match ball at the end, and there’s an emotional moment as he embraces his father, GAA President Jarlath Burns, in the stands.
Rian O’Neill with a brilliant interview on RTÉ, paying tribute to his late uncle Pádraig amidst the madness.
What a win for Armagh, another All-Ireland final defeat for Galway after 2022 and it’s fair to say they’ll have some regrets.
Jarlath Burns with a rousing speech from the steps of the Hogan Stand. “This belongs to you. Today is your day, because the GAA is where we all belong,” he tells GAA volunteers as he prepares to present his countyman, Aidan Forker, with the Sam Maguire Cup.
“Today belongs to Ard Mhaca,” he roars, with a big shout out to Kieran McGeeney.
Croke Park erupts as Forker lifts the silverware. Emotions running high as the RTÉ cameras flash to Geezer.
“Today we’re not dreaming, we are 2024 All-Ireland champions,” the captain beams.
ARMAGH CELEBRATED WILDLY after holding off Galway’s challenge to claim the county’s second-ever All-Ireland senior football title.
Relive the madness at the end:
We’re gonna wrap up the liveblog here, but Fintan O’Toole’s match report is available to read on The 42 and plenty of analysis, reaction and colour will follow this evening and over the next few days.
Thanks for reading. Have a nice evening.
And if you’re from Armagh, enjoy every minute!
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