The Down champions received a bye into the Ulster final with Slaughtneil defeating last year's winners Cushendall after extra-time in the semi-final earlier this month
As Cushendall and Slaughtneil served up an epic Ulster Club SHC semi-final in Armagh earlier this month, Portaferry manager Gerard McGrattan was in the stands plotting the downfall of the victors.
Alas, his 3-9 tally wasn’t enough to see the Antrim champions through and it is Slaughtneil who’ll bid to regain the provincial crown this weekend. The same three teams progressed to the Ulster Championship this year as in 2023 when Portaferry suffered that extra-time loss to Cushendall having led by four points in the closing stages of normal time.
“You rise to the challenge one year to compete at that level, but the measure of a team is to do it again consistently.“We won the Down final by 10 points and it is a massive thing for this group of players to win three county titles in-a-row.
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