Kieran Shannon: Connacht's greatest ever final has us all living in a Roscommon wonderland

This Roscommon team with their running power and scoring power have the potential to both woo and wow us.

DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS: Roscommon superfan, Willie Tiernan from Boyle, can't hide his emotion as the Rossies win the Nestor Cup on home soil for the first time in 25 years. Picture: INPHO/James Lawlor

After the hooter sounded in Dr Hyde Park last Sunday, Paul Earley, brother of the county’s greatest football son and a former All-Star in his own right, bounded up to the press box and declared to some former colleagues that they had just witnessed the greatest-ever performance and win delivered by a Roscommon team.

He could have gone further. As passionate as he is about Roscommon football, Earley has demonstrated a capacity to be suitably detached and objective and survey the general football landscape.