ST. BRIGID’S won their fifth Roscommon senior football title in seven seasons with a hard-earned victory over a resolute Elphin side a wet and dreary Dr Hyde Park.

THE gathering in Portlaoise at the weekend of elite hurlers and footballers who adorned the Leinster championships over the past quarter of a century was noteworthy for the imbalance in the number of All-Ireland medal-winners between the two teams.