Derry were on the spot but Armagh won’t have lost hope; lack of a bounce in Davy’s Déise is a real worry
“I changed my mind in the run-up, literally a second before I kicked the ball. I seen Ethan Rafterty kept going across himself. I would have gone to my left on the previous penalties and that’s where I was going to go. So I said, I have to change my mind here. Thankfully it went in underneath the crossbar. I couldn’t tell you what I was thinking.
Anyway, O’Rourke wasn’t bothered, saying firstly he “didn’t find it any way insulting”, before adding: “The Tailteann Cup is a great competition. It did a lot for the likes of Westmeath last year and we saw Cavan and so many others taking it seriously.” Antrim handed Leitrim a 3-18 to 2-12 defeat, and in Ruislip, Offaly kept things to script by seeing off London with a 2-14 to 0-11 opening victory, just as one-sided as what happened in Navan.
Clare’s Peter Duggan is tackled by Mark Fitzgerald of Waterford during their Munster SHC game on Saturday. Photograph: James Crombie “Every session we take penalties. It’s a thing now you just have to get it. Penalties are a funny thing. It is not like a skillset; it is a pressure thing being able to deal with that. Two penalties in front of you, there are so many permutations. In fairness to the keeper, three penalties that were hit were good penalties round the corner. They were good saves; they weren’t bad penalties.”
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