Dara Ó Cinnéide: Everyone’s eyes turn towards Roscommon

With Kerry, Donegal and Mayo all winning last weekend and Dublin likely to do likewise next weekend, the cosy consensus is that the Big Four of last year’s championship are going to have it all to themselves again this year.

Monaghan looked like they might disrupt the hierarchy somewhat but this week’s setbacks may have put further distance between the Farney county and the Big Time.

In the absence of teams emerging to make the breakthrough, Roscommon have positioned themselves quite well ahead of this evening’s Connacht SFC semi-final tussle with Sligo in Markievicz Park.