Locals downplay controversy over footage showing PSNI officers waving flags and sounding sirens following unionist complaints
Armagh 's Mark Shields kisses the Sam Maguire Cup in front of a crowd of some 16,000 people at the Gaelic Grounds in Armagh . Photograph: Ben Brady/Inphowon the Sam Maguire at Croke Park for the second time in 22 years – and every minute is being relived in a stifling front lounge heaving with fans.
“What’s brilliant is that the young ones get to celebrate what we had. I gave my tickets to my kids as I was there in 2002.” Horns are tooted and cars parked up on grass verges just outside the city as thousands of fans walk towards Dalton Road for the ticketed event at the Athletic Grounds. DUP members met police on Monday after video footage emerged on social media apparently showing officers in police vehicles waving flags and sounding their sirens in Camlough village on the outskirts of Newry. TUV MP Jim Allister also made a compliant to the NI Police Ombudsman.
At 5.40pm, word comes through that the team are close, and 10 minutes later the crowd erupts as Armagh captain Aidan Forker and manager Kieran McGeeney walk through the arch with the Sam Maguire.
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