Roscommon 1-12 Down 0-6: Three wins earned outside of the county boundaries have Roscommon riding high in Division 1 of the Allianz Football League, but manager Fergal O’Donnell is refusing to proclaim their 2017 top flight status just yet.

Down 0-7 Donegal 3-15: Rory Gallagher wants Donegal’s established players to feel the heat from the next generation, and there were loads of positives for him to take from Saturday night’s emphatic league win in Newry.

Benny Coulter has decided against a return to inter-county football.

Confess it: when Dónal Óg Cusack criticised the decision to award Limerick a goal against Westmeath this summer you couldn’t have agreed more. Neither could we.

At the behest of a reader and a Kilkenny friend of ours, we took another look at Barry Kelly’s decision to overturn a Tipperary 65 last Sunday week. 

Jim McCorry says he reluctantly resigned as Down manager because a handful of county executive members “lost the plot” over their qualifier defeat by Wexford.

Peter McNamara looks at the big hurling clash in Munster, the Leinster hurling quarter-final and the big football clash in ulster.

Benny Coulter has claimed Down need Dan Gordon back to resolve their midfield problems if they are to challenge for an Ulster title.

Kieran Shannon looks back at three epic encounters on Sunday, June 26, 2011 that proved to be momentous moments in shaping the destinies of three provincial championships.

Once a manager earns the name of being a dictator, he can cut all the deals he wants, writes Paddy Heaney.

The 2014 season wasn’t without its fair share of disputes and furore. But just where does the likes of Shane Enright’s non-black card, Parade-gate and Stephen O’Keeffe’s safety-defying save from Anthony Nash rank in the GAA’s biggest on-field Championship controversies since 2000?

There goes another one, a forward that used to light it up but has now conceded that the game itself more than father time has dulled and worn him down.

Benny Coulter has admitted that Down’s All-Ireland final loss to Cork in 2010 is the great regret of his career which will "eat me up until I go to my grave".

Benny Coulter last night joined the list of high profile inter-county players to announce their retirement in recent weeks, admitting it is with "a heavy heart" that he has called time on his 15-year career with Down.

It’s with an assuredness that Kevin Reilly now speaks of Meath football.

Armagh have been drawn against Roscommon for the Round 3A qualifiers next weekend, while Clare will host Kildare in the other clash.

Down 0-11 Kildare 1-18

Kildare booked their place in Round 3B of the All-Ireland football qualifiers thanks to a 1-18 to 0-11 victory over Down in Newry.

Down scored their biggest ever win in the All-Ireland qualifiers when they dished out a drubbing to an understrength Leitrim side at Pairc Esler in Newry.

Worrying times for followers of football in the province.

Down 0-12 Tyrone 3-11

Down 0-12 Tyrone 3-11

‘Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.’ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tyrone 2-11 Down 3-8

Tyrone 2-11 Down 3-8

ULSTER SFC PRELIMINARY ROUND:

mickey Linden’s sporting career was as long as it was illustrious but two All-Ireland titles and three Ulster crowns don’t tell half the story about a man who, along with Peter Canavan, was probably the most electrifying inside forward in the country during the 1990s.

There were three moments of Gavin Duffy’s Gaelic football that always stood out.

Throw all the statistics you want at Benny Coulter — you won’t change his mind that teams will revert to type including Tyrone on Sunday.

He’ll always be Wee James to us and nearly anyone who saw him play, but when it comes to inter-county management there’s a case a certain Mr McCartan could be termed Old James.

Cork referee John Sexton have been omitted from this year’s Championship panel.

Laois 1-16 Down 2-10

ARMAGH

Mayobridge, Burren and surprise packets Saval are through to the Down SFC semi-finals.

Two late goals from Benny Coulter helped Mayobridge to a 3-14 to 0-11 win over Saval.

County champions Kilcoo are through to the knockout stages of the Down SFC and sent out a strong message to their rivals yesterday with a 4-17 to 1-7 win over Loughinisland.

As Down prepare themselves for a second Championship battle with Derry in five weeks, Benny Coulter has slammed Pat Spillane’s criticism of his team following their Ulster semi-final defeat by Donegal.

Graham Reilly believes Meath can punch a hole deep into the All-Ireland championship by playing a traditional brand of open football at odds with the massed defences increasingly favoured in the modern game.

Colm Cooper has warned that the GAA faces the spectre of plummeting attendances at senior inter-county football games if the trend for massed defences and a focus on athleticism rather than skill continues.

Down 0-09 Donegal 0-12

Jim McGuinness’ greatest trick is convincing the world that Donegal are invincible.