Last week, Shane Curran tweeted a message to Colm Cooper after he had featured in an AIB “The Toughest” promotion for the club championships: “Good man Goochie and I will tell ya boy it’s going to get a whole lot tougher.”

All-Ireland club champions St Brigid’s came perilously close to a sensational defeat in the Roscommon SFC quarter-finals on Saturday.

Castlehaven got the better of divisional side Duhallow in a scrappy Cork SFC final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh this afternoon, squeezing home by 1-7 to 0-9.