Four Roads cruised to their 36th Roscommon senior hurling title after comfortably seeing off the challenge of Athleague.
The defending champions were ten points to the good after only 14 minutes, and that buffer never looked in danger of being eroded by an Athleague side who lost Darragh Heavey to a straight red card after only 13 minutes.
Shane Curley's side made a blistering start in ideal conditions, finding players in acres of space who got on the scoreboard from a variety of angles.
Padraig Kelly got the tsunami of scores underway after only 14 seconds, and the one-way traffic continued with Jack Donnelly (0-03), Darren Fallon, Kelly, Cathal Dolan (0-03, 0-02 frees) and John Moran catapulting their side out of sight by the end of the first quarter.
At this stage, Heavey had been dismissed for a heavy challenge on Jack Donnelly, and Athleague’s prospects looked bleak for the remainder of the afternoon.
To their credit, they rallied against adversity, with Robbie Fallon scoring a good goal all of his own making after 20 minutes.
Eoin Ward knocked over a couple of eyecatching points from play, while Ben McGahon added a point from play and from a free.
But Four Roads remained in complete control of their own destiny with further points from Kelly, Conor Mulry and Eamon Mulry alongside five frees from Dolan to lead by 0-18 to 1-5 at the interval.
Four Roads eased off the gas in the second half as Athleague, despite their numerical disadvantage, tried to keep the contest competitive.
A second goal, this time from Fallon from a free after 47 minutes, gave them a boost but Four Roads were always able to keep the scoreboard ticking over through Micheál Kelly, Conor Mulry (0-02), Dolan (0-03 frees), Moran and Padraig Kelly to run out comfortable winners.
Elsewhere, Easkey claimed their fourth consecutive Sligo senior hurling championship crown as they battled to 0-22 to 1-15 victory over Naomh Eoin at Markievicz Park.
Andy Kilcullen was the star of the show for the Sea Blues as he hit 0-15 and helped his side rally from an early five point deficit to eventually run out four point winners.
Four Roads: Noel Fallon; Jimmy Hoey, James Dillon, John Moran (0-02); Adam Donnelly, Tommy Morris, Darren Fallon (0-01); Conor Coyle, Eamon Mulry (0-01); Brendan Mulry, Padraig Kelly (0-04), Jack Donnelly (0-03); Micheál Kelly (0-01), Conor Mulry (0-03), Cathal Dolan (0-11, 0-10 frees).
Subs used: Cormac Mulry for Donnelly (51), Conor Kelly for Dillon (60), Donal Kelly for Eamon Mulry (60), Liam Óg Coyle for Brendan Mulry (60), Oisín Campbell for Darren Fallon (60)
Athleague: Gary Fallon; Eoghan O'Brien, Darragh Mullen, Mark Ward; Darragh Heavey, Eoghan Coyle, Stephen Kilcommins; Naoise Coyle, Aengus Lyons; Cormac Kelly, Cian Murray, Eoin Ward (0-02); Ben McGahon (0-09, 0-08 frees), Robbie Fallon (2-00, 1-01 frees), Tadgh Lyons.
Subs used: Alan Moore for O’Brien (h-t), Tomás Clayton for Murray (39), Oisín Lyons for Naoise Coyle (54), Niall Connolly for Kilcommins (54), Cathal Crehan for Kelly (60)
Referee: Matthew Farrell (Oran).
