But it isn’t just any old GAA game either – Sunday will mark the first senior club championship final Loughmacrory St Teresa’s GFC have ever been in.
They face nine-time county champions Trillick St Macartan’s, with the showdown taking place in Omagh.
Father Peter McAnenly is the parish priest for Termonmaguirc, which encompasses the Carrickmore, Loughmacrory and Creggan chapels in Co Tyrone.
Originally a Ballygawley native (and therefore an Errigal Ciaran Gaelic football fan by default), the cleric stated on Wednesday night that “due to Loughmacrory’s involvement in the Tyrone Senior Football Championship Final this Sunday, Mass will be in St Mary’s Church, Loughmacrory on Sat 25th @ 7.30pm. There will be no Mass in Loughmacrory on Sun 26th.”
On X, formerly known as Twitter, the post has been viewed over 200,000 times, with Fr McAnenly responding: “This is crazy!!!”
The announcement has been widely shared on social media, with BBC Sport NI’s Thomas Niblock joking: “Confirmation that Loughmacrory is more important than God. Clinker.”
It was a dramatic route for Loughmacrory to get to Sunday’s final too.
They beat their literal neighbours Carrickmore – which Fr McAnenly also presides over – 1-16 to 4-6 in a thrilling semi-final derby replay at Healy Park.
Loughmacrory have never even been in an intermediate county final, never mind a senior one – which is as top tier as it gets.
Meanwhile, Trillick have made it to the final five times in the last decade, and were county champions as recently as 2023.
St Mary’s Church, Loughmacrory
News Catch Up – Friday 24th October
To date, over 20 different clubs have won the Tyrone Senior Football Championship, and some of those teams no longer even exist.
It is often deemed as the most competitive club championship in all of the GAA, with seven different teams winning it throughout the last 10 years, and no one team winning it consecutively since Carrickmore did so back in 2005.
