A who's who of top-drawer intercounty footballers, past and present, from the border counties will be the star attractions at this weekend's festivities in Aghaloo, county Tyrone in memory of the late Aidan McAnespie and Cormac McAnallen. The weekend of sport, music and dance comes on the 20th anniversary of Aidan's death and will be an expansion of the commemoration of his killing ten years ago. Put in train some eight weeks ago by a local ad-hoc committee, the plans for the commemoration activities sees everything kicking off with a Mass in St. Patrick's Church, Clara at 8pm tonight (Thursday, Feb 21st) with refreshments and a grand Ceili following afterwards at the Aghaloo GAA grounds. On Friday at 9.30pm, a dance will take place in Quinn's Corner Pub and Restaurant, Ballygawley. Saturday next will see various teams from counties Tyrone and Monaghan plus further afield cross swords at Aghaloo GAA Park. Meanwhile on Sunday, the final of the underage competition will take place and then, at the monument marking the spot where Aidan McAnespie fell mortally wounded, a blessing will take place at 2.30pm. Then the mother and father of football matches will get underway at approximately 3pm at the Aghaloo GAA Park with an Aidan McAnespie Team Boston selection taking on a Cormac McAnallen Team Sydney crew. The Tommy Drumm/Martin Harvey/Johnny Guirke-managed Team Boston squad is as follows; Stephen McCarron, Peter Canavan, Brendan Donnelly, Brian Gormley, Gerard McCaughey, Seamus McCallan, Mattie McGleenan (all Tyrone), Gary Comerford (Offaly), Chris Conway (Laois), Nicholas Corrigan, Nudie Hughes, Paraic Treanor (all Monaghan), Damien Gault, Eoin O'Neill, (both Antrim), Mark Little, Ryan McCluskey (Fermanagh), Paul McCormack, Philip Loughran (both Monaghan), Joe McNally (Dublin), Gregory McCartan (Down), Ollie Murphy, Daithi Regan (both Meath). Cormac McAnallen Team Sydney will feature; Lenny Feeney, Keith Hennessy, Rory Keenan, Cornelius Quinn, Joe Brolly, Kevin Cassidy, Benny Coulter, Brendan Grant, Kevin Hughes, Chris Lawn, Stephen Lawn, Eamon Maguire, Dermot McCabe, Ronan McGarrity, Geoffrey McGonigle, Brian McGuigan, Ryan McMenamin, Enda Muldoon, Cathal O'Rourke, Jason O'Reilly, Larry Reilly, Tony Scullion, Ronan Sexton, Adrian Sweeney, Paddy Tally, Anthony Tohill, Michael Walsh. Tweet

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