Ulster SFC quarter-final: Loughmacrory (Tyrone) 0-11 Kilcoo (Down) 0-16
The vast experience of a Kilcoo team that has been at the forefront of Ulster club football for a decade proved too much for first-timers Loughmacrory as the Down men systematically carved out a five points win to set up a semi-final clash with Erne Gaels of Fermanagh.
Everything the Magpies did was wrapped in efficiency and organisation, and on a night when conditions mitigated against flair, they produced some classy moments as well.
Tyrone’s breakthrough champions were unable to live with the intensity that has become the trademark of a team that has contested five provincial finals in the past 10 years.
A defensive shutout blunted the threat posed by Loughmacrory’s exciting young attacking stars, and at the
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