Armagh corner-back Paddy Burns enjoyed being in the loving embrace of wife Orla, daughter Clodagh and other family and friends on the Clones pitch after his lively 74 minutes of football.

The Forkhill native has been playing his club football for Down outfit Burren over the last two years and joked “that made things interesting for me today”.

At one stage while shadowing marauding Down defender Ceilum Doherty, Burns even shoved Conor Laverty in the first half after the Mourne County boss had beckoned his fellow Kilcoo man to the sideline to pass on some instructions.

“I was getting it from a few people in the stand,” Burns told BBC Sport Northern Ireland.

“I got a wee bit from Conor and the other coaches. You know what, I don’t mind getting it on the pitch but when you are getting it from the line……leave it to the players.”

Read more reaction here.

Image source, Inpho

Interesting news just emerging from both dressing rooms.

Tyrone make three changes. The big news is that Conn Kilpatrick is back from injury and starts for Tyrone in midfield in place of Aodhan Donaghy.

Cathal McShane is in for Joe Oguz - who drops out of the squad completely.

Mickey O'Neill also starts in place of Ruairi Canavan, a defensive player for a forward perhaps a sign of how underdogs Tyrone are going to approach this game.

Daley Jones comes onto the bench and with Oguz absent, he will now wear the number 12 jersey.

There's also one late change for Donegal and it's a significant blow with goalkeeper Shaun Patton unable to play after picking up an injury in last week's stunning win over outgoing Ulster champions Derry.

Gavin Mulreany starts between the sticks instead. Game on.

Tyrone great Owen Mulligan believes his native county will beat Donegal in today's semi-final at Celtic Park.

Donegal's hugely impressive win over three-in-a-row seeking Derry means Jim McGuinness' side are hot favourites to account for the Red Hands.

However, Mulligan is backing Tyrone to spring an upset.

"I expect a full-blooded contest, but I fancy Tyrone to come out on top and get to the Ulster Final."

Read more from Mulligan here.

Image source, Inpho

Orla Bannon
BBC Sport NI at Celtic Park

I met a former Donegal player on my way in to Celtic Park who asked me if Peter Harte, who has not been named in the match-day squad and did not feature against Cavan last week due to injury, is indeed playing.

'I heard he's flying in training,' says our informed former Donegal footballer, 'I doubt Dooher is playing a bluff'.

Ah the mind games...

We will soon find out.

Image source, Inpho

Armagh survived a major scare from Down to advance to the Ulster Championship final for the second year in a row winning by 0-13 to 2-6 at Clones.

You can read Orla Bannon's report from Clones here.

Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney says he's very happy at the way his team "dug out" aa tense Ulster Championship semi-final win over Down.

"We’ve had games like that there [during my playing career] when we were at the top of our game, All-Ireland champions, and losing them against teams who were in Division Two so I’ll take a win in the Ulster Championship any day of the week."

Read more from McGeeney here.

Image source, Inpho

Tyrone set up an Ulster Championship semi-final with Donegal after a 3-16 to 1-23 win over Cavan in extra-time.

Donegal put in a superb display to defeat Ulster champions Derry 4-11 to 0-17 in the quarter-final encounter at Celtic Park.

Good afternoon and welcome to our coverage of today's Ulster Championship semi-final between Donegal and Tyrone at Celtic Park.

The game is live on BBC Two NI, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website from 13:45 BST.

Donegal come into the game as favourites after knocking out the holders Derry and they are on a quest to lift their first Ulster title since 2019.

Tyrone needed extra-time to get past Cavan and they are also out to end a long wait for the Anglo-Celt Cup, with their last win coming in 2017.

We will have live text commentary of all the action.

Thanks for joining us, enjoy!