Tyrone star fires club to break what was surely the worst record in GAA history…ever

The duck has been broken.

Aghyaran St Davog's GAA club in Tyrone made their own piece of history on Friday night, history that they will definitely never make again, history that they won't want to make again. Tyrone's most westerly club had an intermediate football first round Championship clash against Rock St Patrick's, and with it they were presented an opportunity to record their first Championship victory in 17 years. That's right, they haven't won a Championship match in 17 years, and to make it even better/worse, they had only won one game in the whole millennium. It's fair to say then, that they went into Friday's clash as underdogs, severe underdogs. They did, however, have Tyrone panelist Ronan McHugh in their ranks, and when you have a sharpshooting forward like him, you can never be truly written off. Aghyaran got off to a flying start, with McHugh notching a casual 2-3 in the first-half, and with years and years of hurt probably never felt by a GAA team before drving them on, they managed to seal the deal and record their first Championship victory in 17 years. McHugh was, by all accounts, unplayable, but this peach was surely the highlight of his night. https://twitter.com/Niall_Gartland/status/906232289037885440 He beat them on his own. https://twitter.com/charraig1982/status/906248178118381568 It just gets better and better. https://twitter.com/bod_uherald/status/906232233132007425 King Kong has been dislodged. https://twitter.com/bod_uherald/status/906251286080782337 The star of the show later confirmed that it was, indeed, one of the worst curses the GAA has ever heard of, and it surely, surely, makes Mayo people feel a bit better about their Sam Maguire misfortune. https://twitter.com/RonanMcHugh14/status/906251767402377216 McHugh had been chatting to Tyrone star and friend Conall McCann prior to the game, and McCann set out a fairly ambitious target for the Aghyaran flier. And McCann, like the rest of us, was blown away by his response. Game respects game. https://www.instagram.com/p/BYgYKptAkx9/?taken-by=ronanmchugh14