Armagh v Donegal LIVE stream for Ulster Ladies senior football final
Armagh take on Donegal this afternoon in the final of the the Ulster Ladies senior football final.
Today's game throws in at 3pm and is being played at St Tiernach's Park in Clones. It will serve as the opening game of a double-header which concludes with the men's Ulster final also played between Armagh and Donegal.
"Hopefully, the Donegal fans turn up for our game too and don't leave it late to get out of the pubs. The tickets are for both games," said Donegal star Abigail Temple Asokuh in a plea for fans to pack out the stadium for both games.
You can watch this afternoon's final live at the top and bottom of this article via the Sport TG4 YouTube channel.
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Donegal were Ulster champions and unbeaten that summer. Our backs were to the wall. We had lost to Roscommon earlier that summer and took a pasting off Kerry in Killarney in the opening Super 8s game. It was one of the best atmospheres I've played in at Castlebar. It was a damp Saturday evening but the place was electric. We turned them over for a famous victory. All four teams have two points entering into the final round, which is an unusual situation in itself. But due to the sequence of results, Mayo are in much more urgent need of a result than Donegal. You can probably tell from that that I don't much fancy Cavan's chances against Tyrone, a team who they've lost against relentlessly over the years. The size of Donegal's win in Kingspan Breffni underlined again - if we needed reminding - how awful Mayo were in the first group game. It was a perennial Mayo problem. Deep down, failing to respect the teams we should beat. It could well prove costly. 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Now, is it that Derry failed in terms of meeting their expectations in the championship? Absolutely, but there has been a narrative created last year that Derry's senior footballers had the worst season ever. 'They won the McKenna Cup, I'm not claiming it to be anything overly special – but they still won it. They won Division One of the National League, they didn't have a good championship campaign, but it's all relative because they were beaten by Donegal, Armagh, Galway and eventually Kerry – three out of the four teams that reached the All-Ireland semi-finals. Derry still reached the quarter-finals. 'I can remember many poorer years for Derry in the championship than last year, but it was sort of built up into this catastrophe of a year. It was more that we didn't meet expectations. 'It's amazing that narrative was sort of depicted in so many areas, and I felt Mickey Harte last year got a lot of scrutiny that was a wee bit over the top at times. 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