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Armagh’s clash with Tyrone in Omagh last weekend, one of the more attractive games of the group stage, attracted just 9,200, while around 3,000 watched Westmeath-Galway in Mullingar, so it may be a stretch to argue that interest in the forthcoming fixture would outstrip the capacity at the Leitrim county…

The game is currently scheduled to take place at the 9,000-capacity Páirc Seán MacDiarmada

The Tanaiste was commenting amid a row over the planned attendance of a Sinn Fein MP at an event billed as the South Armagh Volunteers Commemoration.

His parents hail from Down and Armagh, but Tiernan Mathers is one of an increasing number of US-born players in the New York squad