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IN the gallery of GAA masterpieces, it sits as imperiously as the Mona Lisa on the walls of the Louvre. A groundbreaking original, a priceless treasure, the enigmatic face of the renaissance. Some 35 years ago this week, on the June Bank...
GERRY ARMSTRONG remembers the heat and the friends he made for life. The 2026 World Cup is just over two weeks away and much has been made of the conditions players will face in the US, Canada and Mexico. Some 44 years ago, it was a similar...
Gerry Armstrong with Billy Bingham after the North’s famous win over Spain at the 1982 World Cup
GERRY ARMSTRONG knows how much of a factor altitude in Mexico might be during the World Cup this summer. Armstrong was involved as the North qualified for a second World Cup in a row in 1986, in Mexico. The then-32-year-old had been...