Roscommon 1-20 Galway 0-22
You can say these games don’t amount to a hill of beans and probably, ultimately, you are right. You can remark that this was Roscommon’s fourth Division Two title in eight years and ask what good the other three were to them and maybe that’s fair enough too. “There are worse things going on in the world than losing a Division Two final,” said Pádraic Joyce afterwards.
Here’s the thing though. When the clock ticked into the 70th minute here, the teams were level on 0-19 apiece and everything was dialled up to 11. Galway had closed a five-point gap in the final quarter, the lead had changed hands twice in the final six minutes and nobody was pretending this didn’t matter. The fourth official put up his board and announced six minutes of stoppage time and everyone in …
- April 4, 2022
