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.

Gardaí have appealed for the public’s help in tracing a woman and her one-week-old baby who have not been seen since two days after the child’s birth and who are believed to be with the woman’s boyfriend.

New Mayo manager Stephen Rochford said he will be using next year’s league campaign to experiment as much as possible and fashion a team for a big championship assault.

Thirty-seven jobs are to at risk with the closure of a number of Ulster Bank branches.

Bumper sales of cheese and onion crisps and bottles of Coca Cola were not enough to prevent profits tumbling at Mountjoy jail’s million-euro tuck shop.

Sales of fake tan and Corona cigars in tuck shops around the country’s prison system contributed to revenues of more than €7.5m.

The visiting committee of the Dóchas Centre women’s prison have complained of shabby accommodation, overcrowding, lack of toilets for visitors, and inadequate medical, dental, and mental health services.

IT WAS the fairytale story of the 2007 season but not everyone was overjoyed by the pictures of Eamonn O’Hara waving the Nestor Cup about in joyous celebration in one of the Dr Hyde Park dressing rooms.

ROSCOMMON GAA bosses are to ask Croke Park officials for an extension of time to repay a loan of €1 million to a supporter who bailed them out of a financial crux almost five years ago.

Charlestown Sarsfields (Mayo) 1-9 Castlerea St. Kevin's (Roscommon) 0-11 (AET)

Tourlestrane (Sligo) 1-6 Castlerea St Kevin's (Roscommon) 1-12

More than 40 prison officers have been taken on to staff 550 extra jail spaces despite a recruitment embargo, it was revealed today.

Corofin (GY) 1-14 Castlerea (ROS) 0-08

County senior final action in Tyrone, Roscommon, Carlow, Tipperary and Limerick provided the GAA football action around the country today as all five finals produced winners.

Mark O'Carroll, Senan Kilbride and Conor Devaney will make their championship debuts for Roscommon in Sunday's Connacht SFC quarter-final clash with Galway (Pearse Stadium, throw-in 4pm).

WITH the closure of St Finan’s Psychiatric Hospital in Killarney looming ever closer, the town council is stepping up pressure to obtain some of the land around the hospital for housing.

Former Mayo, Clare and Fermanagh boss John Maughan was ratified as the new manager of the Roscommon senior footballers at a county board meeting last night.

Castlerea businessman John Murphy has been confirmed as the mystery man who has pledged to dig the Roscommon county board out of their current financial debt.

Roscommon are to begin steps towards appointing a successor to Val Daly as the county's senior football manager next week.

THE enduring attraction of the AIB Club championship is that it thrusts small parish teams into the limelight like no other competition in the GAA.

FITZGERALD STADIUM, Killarney was yesterday named as the venue for the meeting of Castlehaven and An Ghaeltacht in the semi-final of the AIB Munster club SFC on Sunday week next.

SENIOR officials from the Irish Prisons Service will visit Castlerea Prison, Co Roscommon, today in a bid to mend a serious break in the link between management and members of the Prison Officers’ Association.

Round 2 Results from Ballina Golf Club for 2002 GUI Barton Shield (Connacht):