SINCE a redeveloped Pearse Stadium was opened in 2003, it has proven to be an unhappy hunting ground for Roscommon football. No team from the county has managed to win in the Salthill venue since then — a wretched sequence the current crop of U21 footballers aim to end this afternoon against Galway.

A clergyman yesterday branded as “ludicrous” a decision by Coronation Street crew members to cover up a church cross during filming for fear that it could offend viewers.