Gacquin: Why Rossies won

LAST Tuesday week, Fergal O’Donnell and his Roscommon players – every one of them – made themselves available for the county’s pre-Connacht final press night in Dr Hyde Park.

No-one was off limits and O’Donnell was the epitome of calm and bonhomie as he joshed with the relatively few national journalists who had opted to make the trip on a wet Tuesday night.

Two nights later and the scene was very different in Sligo where a much larger media posse was kept waiting for almost two hours past the designated time before Kevin Walsh and his men emerged and scattered into the wind.