Dublin and Tyrone were meeting for the first time since the quarter-final of the 2005 All-Ireland SFC, played at Croke Park the previous August.

[4] Tyrone named ten members of the team that had played in the 2005 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, with another three players included as substitutes.

[9] Five of Tyrone's players from 2005 — Peter Canavan, Mark Harte, Chris Lawn, Colm McCullagh and Leo Meenan — were not involved in the 2006 National League campaign.

[10] In the fourth minute of the game the first of several mass brawls occurred and involved as many as eighteen players.

[1] Then a foul was committed on young Tyrone debutant Raymond Mulgrew, resulting in Dublin conceding a penalty.

[1] However, a further brawl led to Dublin's Alan Brogan and Tyrone's Colin Holmes being issued with red cards and they both had to leave the field of play.

[1] Within twenty-three minutes of the restart, Tyrone player O'Neill had received a second yellow card, meaning he too had to leave the field of play.

[11] Tyrone manager Mickey Harte said afterwards that divine intervention would not have been enough: "If Paddy Russell had been God Almighty he couldn't have refereed the game today".

[12] GAA president Seán Kelly called upon the Central Disciplinary Committee (CDC) to review the game as "a matter of urgency".

[4] The following day, the CDC banned Holmes for four weeks but confirmed it was continuing to examine footage of the game.

[15] However, the affair carried on until the following month as both county boards exploited loopholes to avert the sanctions which had been imposed.

[11] The GAA's disciplinary system was tightened afterwards,[11] with rule changes in a bid to prevent a similar occurrence happening again.

We knew that we were going up to try and lay down a marker… Maybe we were the ones that instigated it and brought that edge and helped create that bit of tension around the place".

[11] Before the 2018 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final (which paired Dublin and Tyrone), Up for the Match — the RTÉ television programme which is broadcast live on the eve of that competition's concluding game — reviewed the events of the Battle of Omagh.

[5][16] The name was later applied to the same National Football League fixture in 2020,[17] which took place on the weekend of Storm Jorge.

[19] Dublin manager Dessie Farrell said afterwards that a GAA official had informed him that the game would have been called off on account of Jorge's presence were it not being broadcast live on television.

[22] In 2022, Pat McEnaney described the Battle of Omagh as "handbags stuff" beside the 1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, which he refereed, and which achieved notoriety for a mass brawl on the pitch involving most of the players from the competing teams, Mayo and Meath.