Joe Kernan is full of admiration for his old Ulster sparring partner Mickey Harte.

The 2002 All-Ireland winning Armagh manager was inducted into the GAA's Hall of Fame yesterday and, speaking to gaa.ie, he was fulsome in his praise of his one-time arch rival.

Kernan and the Orchard County lost out to the Red Hands in the 2003 decider.

"It's phenomenal what he's done, and kept changing his backroom team, kept freshening it up, which is what you have to do. But Mickey will be there as long as he wants to be, he seems to have that drive.

"I know myself there's comes the stage where if you haven't the drive, the players know it, but the players obviously feel he still has it in him.

"They were beat in four semi-finals, and to get to four semi-finals takes a lot of work, but I think this year they've learnt from their mistakes, certainly of last year.

"It will all be put on the line this Sunday."

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