Roscommon promoted to Divison One

Westmeath 0-12 Roscommon 2-13: Roscommon manager John Evans hailed his side’s promotion to Division 1 of the National Football League by saying: “This meant everything to us today to win promotion. 

Roscommon promoted to Divison One

We have been working really, really hard as a unit to get promotion and we have a lovely quiet, slick, fast, physically strong team, who were really tested today. We put everything into this for the past two years.”

Second-half goals from Conor Daly and Senan Kilbride helped Roscommon to a seven-point victory over Westmeath in Cusack Park, Mullingar, yesterday. Sean McDermott was sent off on a straight red card offence near the end, but nothing could dampen the team’s spirit.

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