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.

The Roscommon footballers have been forced to concede home advantage for Sunday’s league fixture against Down owing to an unplayable pitch at Hyde Park and a Croke Park ruling the game could not be staged at Kiltoom.

Laurence and Martina Hayes, the couple killed in Friday’s terror attack in Tunisia, had put down roots in the very heart of Athlone.

Roscommon 6-18 Sligo 0-12: Reigning Connacht U21 champions Roscommon enjoyed a goal feast as they accounted for Sligo by a whopping 24 points at Kiltoom.

A blistering opening set Galway on their way to a 2-13 to 1-12 win over Meath in their Allianz Football League Division 2 tie today.

Roscommon 4-8 Galway 1-12: FBD Connacht final: There is growing optimism in Roscommon that a succession of good underage sides is about to mark them as a serious force at senior level, but the need to temper that expectation was also obvious at Kiltoom yesterday.

Roscommon continued their excellent run of form this afternoon in Kiltoom as a flurry of fantastic goals helped to put Galway to the sword.

And to the death they will go.

Roscommon 1-21 Limerick 0-13

There were first-round wins for Leitrim and Galway, while Roscommon and IT Sligo drew in the FBD League this afternoon.

AT FIRST glance, Newbridge and Hollywood wouldn’t appear to have a lot in common — the Kildare town and Tinseltown would seem to be worlds apart both geographically and culturally.

St Brigids (Roscommon) 2-11 Ballymun Kickhams (Dublin) 2-10

The St. Brigid's team for Sunday's AIB All-Ireland Club SFC final against Ballymun Kickhams has been announced.

Galway manager Anthony Cunningham was celebrating a doubly joyous weekend after his home club St Thomas’s and current club St Brigid’s qualified for the All-Ireland senior hurling and football finals on March 17.

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.

Tomorrow may tell another tale about their teams but lines can be drawn between supporters of Dublin last September and Mayo this month.

He is quiet and unassuming but Anthony Cunningham can let fly in a dressing-room — usually starts with the strongest player and working his way back, says John Fallon

A commanding second-half performance from Roscommon put pre-match favourites Mayo to the sword under lights at Kiltoom on Wednesday night.

He’s a member of Saturday’s opponents, as are the rest of his immediate family, but Anthony Cunningham admits he never asked his club St Brigid’s about taking over neighbours Garrycastle.

Tipperary’s credentials as promotion hopefuls from Division 3 suffered an early blow as their journey to Kiltoom proved fruitless.

COROFIN have taken a swipe at the Connacht Council and the referee of the provincial final which led to the club being fined over €5,000.

GALWAY champions Corofin have been hit with an extra €500 fine after an appeal to the Connacht Council backfired.

GALWAY champions Corofin are appealing the suspension of two of their members and the €5,100 fine dished out following the controversial Connacht SFC Club final defeat by St Brigid’s of Roscommon.

WHEN a GAA president expresses his confidence clubs will identify their troublemakers you know he’s not putting his hand out to be slapped.

GAA president Christy Cooney is confident clubs will identify their members involved in the recent unsavoury scenes in Roscommon and Tyrone.

KILKENNY’S three-time All Star James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick has surprisingly ended his inter-county career at the age of 26.

THE unsavoury scenes at the end of this Connacht SFC club final in Kiltoom will dominate the initial headlines but the lasting legacy will be abouta stirring second-half comeback by Roscommon champions St Brigid’s to retain their crown.

ST. BRIGID'S (Roscommon) 0-11 COROFIN (Galway) 0-10

The AIB Connacht Club SFC final will be a Galway-Roscommon affair after Corofin and St. Brigid’s came through today’s semi-final encounters.

LAST Saturday in Kiltoom was the type of county final experience Niall Daly has always dreamed of.

Roscommon, Longford, Carlow and Fermanagh all registered wins in Division 4 of the Allianz Football League this afternoon.

Two investigations are underway after a man died in a farming accident in Co. Roscommon.

SHOW jumper Jessica Kürten’s slide down the Rolex World Rankings continued last month, with the Antrim woman now lying 20th.

FORMER champions Mayo are fighting relegation in Division 1 of the Bord Gáis Energy Ladies National Football League after a third successive defeat yesterday.

Former champions Mayo are fighting against relegation in Division 1 of the Bord Gáis Energy Ladies National Football League after suffering a third successive defeat today.

NEMO Rangers defender Derek Kavanagh has called on GAA chiefs to review their system of selecting venues for major club games.

SOUTH Roscommon man Eugene Fayne was elected president of the Golfing Union of Ireland at yesterday’s Annual General Meeting at Carton House, Co Kildare.

The provincial club Football Championships got underway in Ulster and Connacht today, while there was also plenty of county football final action across the country.

THE All-Ireland SFC semi-final between Cork and Dublin will captivate fans far beyond Croke Park.

ROSCOMMON boss Fergal O’Donnell has opted to keep faith with the team that sprung a major surprise in the recent Connacht decider against Sligo for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Cork at Croke Park.