Paul Breen expressed his delight at Croke Park on Saturday after Armagh clinched their first All-Ireland hurling title in the form of the Nicky Rackard Cup.

The corner-forward, who was apart of the Armagh side which lost out at the same stage three years ago, scored 2-4, including the winning point in injury-time which helped put London to the sword and send the trophy up north.

"We were here in 2007 and we lost out," said Breen. "We promised ourselves that day we'd come back here (and win), and this time the result was in our favour so we're over the moon.

"Until the end it was touch and go; we knew what they could and any ball going in there could end up in the back of the net, but we held out and got the result we needed.

"I think at this stage if anybody in the team had put it over it would have been great, it just happened to be me. I'm happy. They came back and hit the post and had a great chance to draw it, thank God it came back off it.

"Our minors are in this year's Ulster final and we need this to grow the underage structure. We're the shop window." Tweet

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