Kevin Armstrong (1922–1992[1] ) was a dual player who played football and hurling for his local club O'Connell's and for the Antrim senior inter-county teams in both codes from the 1940s until the 1960s.
Ulster hurling, however, was the poor relation of the other three provinces and, as such, the provincial champions were not allowed to contest the senior All-Ireland series of games.
Chief amongst these was the fact that the Emergency forced the All-Ireland minor and junior to be cancelled, resulting in the Ulster teams having no hurling competition.
That game, played at Corrigan Park in Belfast, threw up a surprise result as Antrim defeated Galway by 7–0 to 6–2.
This allowed Armstrong's side to advance to an All-Ireland semi-final meeting with Kilkenny and, once again, the game was played at Corrigan Park.
It was the first of six provincial titles in-a-row for Armstrong and his county, however, on each occasion Antrim were heavily defeated in the All-Ireland semi-final.
Armstrong retired from inter-county football some years later, however, he continued lining out for his county's hurling team until 1961.
Hurling Football In retirement from playing Armstrong maintained a keen interest in Gaelic games.