Inside Track with John McIntyre

THE Connacht senior football championship kicks off this weekend but, remarkably, none of the five home participants will be heading into the chase for the JJ Nestor Cup on the front foot.

Galway are still smarting from failing to win any of their last three Division 1 matches – a series of results which cost them a place in the league final – while their big rivals Mayo’s challenge was comfortably swatted aside by Kerry at Croke Park last Sunday.

At the same venue the previous evening, Roscommon were put in their place by an admirable and rejuvenated Monaghan in the Division Two final, while the province’s two minnows, Sligo and Leitrim, have lots of problems of their own.

Leitrim were relegated to Division Four after a........

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