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Conor Turbitt savours club and county success as remarkable season continues
By any standards, Conor Turbitt is having quite a remarkable year. Having spent the first half of 2024 helping Armagh win their second senior All-Ireland title, ‘Turbo’ has claimed further silverware with his club Clann Eireann.
After winning the Division One title earlier in the season, the Lurgan side won the Gerry Fagan Cup for the second time in four seasons with an impressive 3-13 to 0-15 win over local rivals Clan na Gael in the Armagh SFC decider at the Box-It Athletic Grounds on Saturday night.
Turbitt contributed eight points, six from play, and had a hand in two of his side’s three goals. He was, therefore, an easy selection for the man-of-the-match award and he might well end the week on the All-Star Football team for 2024 for his exploits with the Orchard county this summer.
Speaking after Saturday’s seven-point defeat of Clan na Gael, Turbitt reflected on an incredible club and county campaign that may yet yield more trophies with the Armagh champions set to face Newbridge of Derry in the Ulster club series.
“It has been some year for us and it keeps getting better. It probably took us a while from the All-Ireland campaign to get settled back into the club season," said Turbitt.
“We’ve gone from strength-to-strength and this is the result of it.
"We had five players on the county panel so it was never easy to filter in. We’d a couple of niggles to try and sort out as well.
"Every game we were playing, it felt as though we were getting stronger all the time. I think this is the result of us continuously putting in the work and turning up.”
He added: “I sort of feel like every game I play in at this stage is a massive game, but that’s what we want as footballers.
“You want to be playing on the big occasions and to be playing and competing for trophies. We’ve got two of the biggest on offer this year. It is amazing.”
A bit of quick thinking from Turbitt helped punish some slack defending from the Clans when a mark was turned into a free for dissent in the fourth minute of Saturday's rescheduled Armagh final.
Turbitt spotted Emmet Magee was unmarked and took the free quickly with Magee firing into the net.
The Armagh sharpshooter also made a lung-bursting run for his side’s second goal, playing a pass to his county colleague Barry McCambridge who then set up Jack Conlon for a deft finish into the far corner.
Reflecting on the first goal, Turbitt remarked: “I think Clans will be disappointed with how they left it, they fell asleep for a second. Emmet Magee was just as alert as I was to see the pass.
“Those are the moments that are massive in finals - when you look back, it gave us a real springboard to push on and win the game.
“Conor McConville (Clann Eireann captain) said it in his speech - we’ve 55 boys out training each night. We’ve an Intermediate team who got to the Intermediate semi-final and that’s an incredible achievement in itself.
“We’ve so many boys turning up to training eager and wanting to push this team on. For the first team getting to play against an Intermediate team in training it only helps to get you prepared for a game like that.”
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