A very proud Pat McTeggart gleefully watched on as U15.5 team captain Tomás Cathcart hoisted aloft the McEvoy Cup at Brewster Park to take a second Ulster title this year.

The St. Aidan’s principal has been in the school as a boy and man, having to wait 51 years to see a boys side reach an Ulster final.

But, they came like buses, with St. Aidan’s winning the McCormack Cup in January and now the McEvoy Cup to leave McTeggart thrilled.

“Absolutely tremendous, as I said during the week, we might have won one, but this is a new set of players, new team and these boys, we told them to write their own history and not say they won a previous final,” he said after fulltime.

“So, two in the one year is absolutely tremendous for the school and the local clubs who have given so much for us and we’re absolutely delighted, over the moon, and I tell you it’s hard to beat victory, you know.”

He went on to hail his side's defending in the first half, roaring instructions from the sidelines alongside the management team of Richie O’Callaghan and Dom Corrigan throughout.

“We have a good forward unit, so we knew if we could get the ball quick into them and the forward line, but I think in the first half our goalkeeper and defence kept us in it, and only for that, you know, Largy put up a huge contest, a very physical matchup, and they might have been out of sight by halftime, only that our defence was so good,” he continued.

Despite adding two pieces of silverware to the St. Aidan’s trophy cabinet this year, McTeggart says the school isn’t done just yet with their U14 girls side in action against St. Dominic's of Belfast on Tuesday: “Two Ulster titles in one year is not bad, we have the girls out on Tuesday in a semi-final, the U14 girls against St Dominic’s so it’s hard to beat, success breeds success as they say, so we’ll see how that goes. 

"But the girls will be going out confident that they’ve seen these lads and the previous team achieve victory so we’re definitely looking for next Tuesday.”