Armagh trio cleared to face Donegal after suspensions quashed

Armagh will have a full-strength squad available for Sunday's Ulster SFC clash with Donegal after three of the county’s suspended players were cleared to play by the GAA’s Central Appeals Committee (CAC) this evening.

It means that the influential Stefan Campbell, Ciarán Mackin and Aidan Nugent, who were all handed one-match bans by the Central Hearings Committee (CHC) recently will be available for the crunch clash in Ballybofey.

All three were identified by match official Paddy Neilan for "contributing to a melee" following the meeting of the two counties in the last round of the Allianz Division 1 game at Letterkenny some weeks ago.

But tonight the CAC overthrew those suspensions, meaning that all are free to play a part on Sunday.

The news comes soon after talisman Rian O’Neill’s suspension from the same game was rejected by the CHC.

Donegal, meanwhile, will be without Odhran McFadden-Ferry and Neil McGee who also received proposed one-match bans with the Donegal board accepting the penalties.