Paul Rouse: Avoiding relegation is as satisfying - and important to a county - as securing silverware

Offaly manager John Maughan - his side will battle for their Division Two survival against Cork on Sunday afternoon.

Here’s a statement of the blindingly obvious: it is a massive weekend for Gaelic football. And it is a peculiar kind of massive, because actually winning the league pales in importance besides managing to avoid relegation.

In football, five teams live in danger of relegation from Division One: Dublin, Monaghan, Donegal, Kildare and the All-Ireland champions Tyrone could conceivably end up back in Division Two.