The night that Armagh announced their return to the top flight of the Allianz Football League by demolishing Dublin at Croke Park, Oisín McConville wondered if it was a false dawn.
“Lots of times we thought, ‘we’re back’,” said the 2002 All-Ireland winner at the time. “Lots of times we thought we could compete with anyone and then we’d get the mother and father of a good hiding.”
Five games later, and with Kieran McGeeney’s side chasing a league final place this weekend, McConville is confident enough to say that, yes, this Armagh team is indeed the rea …

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