Conor Turbitt’s point late in extra time saw Armagh come through a battle against Tyrone in Sunday’s Ulster senior football championship preliminary round clash.

Kieran McGeeney’s side won by 1-17 to 1-16 at the Box-It Athletic Grounds, where they’d looked to have done enough in normal time until Ben McDonnell’s goal forced the extra periods for the visitors.

The Orchard men had been the better team during the first-half of normal time, taking in a double scores (0-8 to 0-4) lead with the help of points from Cian McConville, Callum O’Neill, Ross McQuillan and Darragh McMullen.

The Red Hands were a much improve side in the second-half however, sending over the first three scores – two of them from the boot of Ethan Jordan – and they’d get level through Peter Teague before Michael McKernan put them ahead in the 59th minute.

An Oisin O’Neill two-pointer steered the home side back in front and the same player would add two more points (one free), which was seemingly enough for Armagh until McDonnell’s late intervention.

Armagh had also lost McMullen to a second yellow card before the goal concession, meaning they’d have to play the entirety of extra time with 14 men, and they couldn’t have asked for a better start to it after McQuillan’s point was backed up by a Tomás McCormack goal.

Tyrone’s response was to send over back-to-back two-pointers via McKernan and Conn Kilpatrick and they’d be ahead through a Matthew Donnelly point ahead of two more sailing over at the other end via Oisin O’Neill in the run up to the break.

Young ace Eoin McElholm got Malachy O’Rourke’s side level in the 83rd minute and, with both sides missing chances, it was substitute Turbitt that got fed in behind five minutes later to fist over what proved to be the winner for the Orchard County as they booked their provincial quarter-final date with Fermanagh after coming out on top in a hard fought battle with their old rivals.

High drama in the @UlsterGAA SFC as the home side prevail after extra time@Armagh_GAA 1-17@TyroneGAALive 1-16
Watch the highlights here 👉🎥 #ARMvTYR pic.twitter.com/uUJ4UHVsiU

— The GAA (@officialgaa) April 12, 2026

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