"Sammy's coming home, Sammy’s coming home tonight," sang the crowd as Clann Éireann held a pre-All Ireland fun day.
Hundreds turned out to celebrate the Lurgan club’s part in an Armagh story they hope will end in glory.
Three of its players, Conor Turbitt, Barry McCambridge and Tiernan Kelly, will be in Armagh’s match day squad on Sunday for the All-Ireland football clash with Galway. Two others, Sean McCarthy and Daniel Magee, are on the panel.
All five are the product of a youth development programme called the Mini-Éireanns, launched the year after Armagh won their only All Ireland title in 2002.
Tyrone native Brian Turbitt, father of county star Conor Turbitt, was one of the coaches who played a key role.
"There were quite a few of us who sat down and said okay, how do we take the energy and excitement and bring this into Clann Éireann," he explains.
"I can remember those lads coming through the gate for the very first time. There’s been so many people involved, so many hours trying to bring those lads on to be the best they possibly can."
But how does a proud Tyrone man feel about helping to build the foundations for possible Armagh glory?
"Oh, I used to get a lot of stick during the early noughties when the rivalry between Tyrone and Armagh was at its height. I told people I viewed it as being engaged in missionary work. It’s wonderful to see five of those young lads in the panel this Sunday."
Success on the field for the club across all age groups in recent years has led to a huge influx of new members - not good when it comes to demand for tickets.
Club chairperson Roisin Bell says demand has been impossible to meet.
"I mean, it’s absolutely awful," she says surrounded by hundreds of young players and members taking part in the fun day.
"We got 240 tickets. You look around you now, I mean we could have sold a thousand tickets without any doubt.
"We have members who have said they will cancel family holidays or arrange to fly home early if they can get a ticket. But many people who do so much for this club are going to be disappointed, it’s awful."
Across town bitter club rivals Clann na Gael are also gearing up for Sunday, with two players in the team - Stefan 'Soupy' Campbell and Shane McPartlan.
For the next four days local rivalries will be set aside.
"For Sunday yeah, we'll set it aside for Sunday and when Armagh's going rightly we'll set it aside and after that we'll go back to normal service," says Clann na Gael committee member Joe Lavery.
Other traditional rivalries have also been set aside as the club struggled to get enough orange and white bunting to decorate the club and surrounding streets.
The club based in the nationalist Shankill area of Lurgan this week took delivery of orange and white bunting from a company on the loyalist Shankill Road in Belfast.
"We’re getting bunting from north, south, east and west, everywhere and anywhere we can get our hands on it, we’ve struggled to get it in the past few days so we've had to go to places where we normally wouldn't have went to get bunting," says Joe.
"Including from the Shankill Road?" I ask.
"That could be very true, very true," he replies.
"When there's sales involved everybody's interested you know, money makes the world go round, as well as sport."
Another Lurgan club, St Paul's, has Andrew Murnin in the match day squad, making it six players from the north Armagh down.
That's impressive.
But 40km away, the south Armagh village of Camlough is punching well above its weight.
With a population of just around 1,000, it will have four players in the match day squad on Sunday - Blaine Hughes, brothers Connaire and Ciaran Mackin, and Greg McCabe.
In a place bedecked in orange and white, Ciaran Hughes has gone further than most and nailed his colours to his house.
The once grey gable wall of his large, detached house has been painted in the county colours and its crest.
"It was a spur of the minute thing, my brothers and I just thought we’d do something a bit special and got the paint out," he says.
If Armagh win on Sunday, the gable will remain as it is for some time.
"But what if they don’t win?" I ask.
"Ah," he replies after a slight hesitation and a glance over his shoulder at the freshly painted wall. "I don’t want that thought to cross my mind just, hopefully they will win. Think positive."
Across the county, demand for jerseys, car flags and all things orange has soared, and shops are struggling to meet demand.
McKeever's Sports, the company producing them, and which supplied the kit for the Irish rugby, rowing and boxing teams for the Paris Olympics, has suspended all other work and is turning out around 500 jerseys per day.
"It’s been mad, absolutely phenomenal since we qualified for the final," says managing director Padraic McKeever.
"I think people leading into the semi-final with Kerry maybe didn't get too excited but since the result against Kerry it's just exploded, so Armagh is going orange mad.
"We normally have the factory working on a range of club products and team sets, but obviously this week the final has taken priority and to fulfil that demand for the fans, so we've parked all the club business for this week and it's just 100% Armagh."
On one of the factory worktops sits a special edition of jerseys, shorts and socks that are not for sale - the special match day kits for the players with the jerseys bearing the words, "All-Ireland Senior Football Final 2024" beneath the Armagh crest.
Those who will wear them, and their supporters, hope they'll need to go back to the factory to add the word "Winners".
Those cheering the boys from the Co Armagh team will include proud Tyrone man Brian Turbitt.
"You don't always get to live where you were born and the great thing about the GAA is that you can go into a community and the GAA is there and my God, my family and I have just loved it here," says the Clann Éireann coach.
"I really will be rooting for Armagh on the day, there's no two ways about it. You know, that's what you want, you want to see your son, you want to see that team, you want to see them getting over the line.
"Because you know what it means when it comes back into the community, you know the GAA will be much more vibrant, there'll be more people coming through our gates, the young ones, the parents, the engagement with the community.
"It really is such an important thing that they get over the line. We wish them well."
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