WATCH: Rossies’ invasion of New York is a reflection on how they feel about current team

Former Roscommon senior footballer Paul Earley believes that the Rossies’ invasion of New York this weekend is a reflection on how people feel about the current senior football team.

Speaking to the Roscommon Herald outside 5 & Mad in Manhattan — a pub owned by Ballinameen native Kieran Keaveney —where there was a huge gathering of Roscommon supporters for a function on Friday evening, Earley stated that the team played a huge role in shaping the identity of the county.

“The identity of the county is built around our senior football team. When people talk to me about Roscommon — I live up the country in Kildare — they always talk about Roscommon football.

“When people talk about Limerick, they talk about Limerick hurling. If it’s Tyrone, it’s Tyrone football and people like Peter Canavan. So I think there’s a great connection between the public and the senior football. When the senior team is going well, there’s a great mood in the county, and it lifts the people.

“The fact that so many people have travelled here is a reflection of how they feel about the team this year. There’s a great spread of players from right around the county,” he said.

Click the link below to hear what Paul had to say.