Roscommon manager John Evans claims there are only six inter-county Gaelic football referees capable of handling what he believes are the massive workloads currently placed on them.

Roscommon 0-13 Wicklow 1-10

Fermanagh 2-11 Roscommon 1-6

Sligo, Meath, Fermanagh and Cavan all claimed wins in Division 3 of the Allianz Football League over the weekend.

Roscommon 1-11 Sligo 1-08

The sponsorship person who has to hang around to present the man of the match award could have made a strong case for it to be done at half-time in Hyde Park yesterday to get home out of the rain.

Roscommon 1-11 Armagh 1-9, Dr. Hyde Park

Of all the misfits, they were first to be flung unmercifully on to the scrapheap of the qualifiers.

A 14-point defeat is a bitter pill for any side to swallow.

After three years waiting for a Connacht victory on Irish soil, it was like two came at once for Galway yesterday in this emphatic win over Roscommon on their home patch.

Roscommon 0-10 Galway 3-15

Roscommon manager Des Newton has selected his team to face Galway in Sunday's Connacht SFC quarter-final at Dr. Hyde Park (throw-in 4pm).

Longford recovered from conceding a couple of goals in the early stages to eventually get the better of neighbouring rivals Roscommon in a highly entertaining Allianz FL Division 3 encounter at Brothers Pearse Park.

Longford top Division 3 of the Football League on scoring difference after victory over neighbours Roscommon, while Tipperary slumped to their third defeat when going down to Wexford today.

A 22-MONTH-OLD toddler knocked down by a car at a children’s birthday party died of multiple injuries, an inquest has heard.

RESIDENTS of ghost estates are living in fear of accidents among the debris of unfinished homes while a fund set up for urgent repair and safety works goes largely untapped.

WE have become accustomed to Dublin dominating the agenda at Croke Park — but this was something new.

IT has been a miserable week for Roscommon.

LET’S say it as it is.

Roscommon will field an unchanged team when they battle it out with Mayo in Sunday's Connacht SFC final.

Leitrim 0-06 Roscommon 2-12

CARLOW manager Luke Dempsey has handed out five championship debuts for next Sunday’s Leinster SFC quarter-final against Louth.

Manager Fergal O'Donnell has picked an unchanged Roscommon team for Sunday's Connacht SFC semi-final against Leitrim in Carrick-on-Shannon (throw-in 2pm).

ROSCOMMON had a timely return to form in New York last night as the Connacht champions began the defence of their title impressively in the Bronx.

New York 1-11 Roscommon 3-21

THE Department of Environment is in talks with English housing agencies about off-loading some of the thousands of empty properties in Irish ghost estates.

Leitrim, Roscommon and Wicklow all registered comfortable victories in Division 4 of the Allianz National Football League on Sunday afternoon.

SOME of the country’s most dangerous “ghost estates” are due to be cleaned up over the next few months as a result of an initiative which will enable local authorities carry out critical work to ensure the public’s safety.

THE Roscommon Hospital Action Committee, which last August rallied up to 10,000 people to support its cause, has selected its chairperson John McDermott to run in the election.

WILLIE O’DEA has become the latest senior Fianna Fáil figure to criticise the exodus of ministers from the party, saying the situation resembled “the flight out of Egypt”.

OUTGOING Defence Minister Tony Killeen was a bit like the stealth bomber of the Cabinet — nobody really knew he was there, but colleagues were comforted by his presence none the less.

MICHAEL Woods last night joined the exodus of senior Fianna Fáil figures standing down at the looming election as it emerged that Defence Minister Tony Killeen will receive a golden goodbye of some €237,000 when he exits the Dáil.

Two more Fianna Fáil politicians have joined the list of those who will not be running in the forthcoming General Election.

RESCUERS who saved the lives of 11 people from near-drowning incidents were among those honoured at the annual awards ceremony of Irish Water Safety in Dublin yesterday.

LANDLORDS who illegally retain tenants deposits will face a fine under plans to be brought before Government.

OUR contemporary Celtic crisis is akin to a three-leaf shamrock. The first component is the banking failure.

DEVELOPERS will be forced to finish and clean up ghost estates after a survey found more than 100,000 dwellings are lying empty, incomplete or were planned but never built.

HOMELESS charity Simon worked with at least 4,500 people who were homeless or at serious risk of homelessness in 2009, it has said.

THERE were calls last night for continued Government investment in the regeneration of Cork’s northside as one of the most ambitious phases of a housing project costing €120 million was officially opened.

PROMOTERS of Limerick’s regeneration schemes have been urged to focus on housing.