Cullyhanna came from 10 points down to defeat Crossmaglen Rangers by 1-21 to 0-23 at the Box-It Athletic Grounds this evening and join Madden Raparees in the Armagh senior football championship final.

Aidan Nugent’s two-point free late on proved the difference as Cullyhanna tore up the script on the 47-time champions to leave themselves a win away from what would be their club’s first Gerry Fagan Cup success.

Cross’ had made a strong start to this thrilling semi-final, running up a 0-10 to 0-5 lead after the opening 15 minutes and the scores of Cian McConville and Aaron O’Neill would help put them nine in front.

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Cullyhanna pulled back a couple of points before half-time, when the sides went in with the scoreboard reading 0-15 to 0-8, but their opponents threatened to run away with again after the change of ends as points from McConville and Oisin O’Neill (2) made it 0-19 to 0-9 come the 39th minute.

Crucially, the trailers hit the net in their next attack via Shea Hoey and they battled back into with Nugent sending over frees for them and Gavan Duffy and Ross McQuillan landing scores that suddenly left three in it.

Nugent sailed over a two-point free on the hour mark to leave things on a knife edge late on before repeating the trick deep in injury-time to cement Cullyhanna’s first SFC final berth in the Orchard County in nine years.

They now get set to take on Madden, who dethroned Clann Eireann last night, for the trophy on October 26th.

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— Armagh_GAA (@Armagh_GAA) October 11, 2025

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