Depending on what route you take, it’s a journey of about four hours from John Evans’ native Killorglin to Aughrim, Wicklow GAA’s county ground.

To describe this great team of Jim Gavin’s, Ciarán Whelan turns to capital sage Jimmy Rabbitte for inspiration.

Roscommon defender Neil Collins admits the team have yet to settle on the style of football Kevin McStay and Fergie O’Donnell want them to play.

Roscommon 1-21 Leitrim 0-11: IT is hard to believe that Leitrim have never beaten Roscommon at Páirc Sean Mac Diarmada in the championship. But given the gulf between them yesterday, maybe it’s not so hard.

Former Roscommon captain Shane Curran has advised county officials to “move heaven and earth” to instal a management dream team of Kevin McStay and Fergal O’Donnell.

Fermanagh 1-14 Roscommon 0-16: Sean Quigley kicked the winner for Fermanagh three minutes into added time, but Roscommon will wonder for quite some time how they coughed up a five-point lead with five minutes left.

Roscommon 1-14 London 0-10: Ruislip hosted its final championship match before redevelopment yesterday but the dilapidated old ground went out with a whimper as Roscommon coasted past their London hosts and into a Connacht semi-final.

Peter McNamara takes a snappy look at today’s GAA action.

Roscommon are flying high this week after their second successive promotion under the watchful gaze of Killorglin’s John Evans.

We’re at the halfway point in three of the most important weekends concerning Roscommon football in 2015.

GAA chiefs have fixed next weekend’s Allianz League Division One semi-finals for Croke Park.

Kildare 2-12, Roscommon 0-24:

Full-forward Patrick Sweeney scored 1-5 as Galway moved to the top of the Allianz Football League Division 2 table with a 2-13 to 2-12 win over Westmeath at Cusack Park.

Cavan 0-5 Roscommon 0-16

As the countdown to Sunday’s Connacht SFC semi-final against Roscommon gathers momentum in Mayo, manager James Horan has issued a stark reminder to the team’s loyal and long-suffering supporters.

CONNACHT U21 FC FINAL:

Being parachuted in mid-season may not be ideal preparation for the start of any inter-county managerial reign but Peter Creedon is not complaining.

Them being friends and all, Seamus Kenny can take the proverbial out of Meath’s prodigal son Joe Sheridan.

MICHEÁL McDERMOTT is set to focus exclusively on the Clare senior footballers in the wake of Monaleen’s exit from the Munster club championship on Sunday.

THIS time last year, Tipperary prepared to take on Kerry with the unfamiliar air of expectancy wafting through their nostrils but no such scent has been detected this week as John Evans’ side prepares for yet another tilt at the Kingdom.

TIPPERARY were transformed after half-time at Semple Stadium yesterday as they got off to a winning start against Limerick in Division 3 of the Allianz NFL.

TIPPERARY secretary Tim Floyd has conceded the county senior footballers could open their Allianz League Division Three campaign this weekend without a jersey sponsor.

HE will be 34 later this year and hasn’t played inter-county football in 11 months but Jason Sherlock isn’t prepared to admit his days as a Dublin footballer are numbered just yet.

FORMER Dublin captain, Ciarán Whelan, has criticised Pat Gilroy for abandoning his experimental defensive system and leaving his players ill-prepared for Sunday’s Leinster semi-final against Meath.

AS Kieran Donaghy posed patiently for snap-happy juveniles after Kerry’s Championship opener on Sunday in Thurles, he can’t have imagined how quickly the defeat of Tipperary would be swallowed whole by the handpass debate.

A PENNY for Conor Counihan’s thoughts leaving Semple Stadium yesterday.

THE attacking genius of Michael Murphy has caused suffering for plenty teams in recent seasons and Tipperary’s U21s became the latest victims of the Glenswilly man’s prowess in Saturday night’s All-Ireland U21FC semi-final in Parnell Park.

KERRY GAA chiefs will today learn the seriousness of an eye injury sustained by All-Ireland winner Colm Cooper, pictured, in Sunday’s NFL win over Monaghan.

Armagh 1-15 Tipperary 2-8

IT mattered little to the Tipperary management that they secured their first victory in the National Football League yesterday in Semple Stadium by beating a Meath side which performed well below the standard normally expected from the Royals.

Tipperary 1-9 Meath 0-10

Down 0-14 Tipperary 1-11

AT Laffansbridge the first sign is spotted, nailed firmly to a telephone pole. The Killenaule club colours are prominent with the yellow background and red font, and the message is proclaimed simply: ‘Best of luck Declan, Festy and Gerry’.

Tipperary 2-10 Louth 1-12

GIVEN the parlous nature of trying to predict a championship win for the Tipperary footballers these last five years, it’s difficult to justify the level of expectation being attached to them before tomorrow’s Munster SFC opener in Semple Stadium.

Tipperary 0-18 Down 1-14