The draws for the quarter-finals of the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior championship will take place next Monday morning on RTÉ Radio 1 just after 8.30am as part of Morning Ireland.
The draw will involve the four provincial champions Galway, Dublin, Kerry, and Derry drawn to play one of the four Round 2 Qualifier winners from this weekend; Mayo, Clare, Cork/Limerick, and Donegal/Armagh.
The draw is subject to Provincial Final Winners avoiding defeated finalists from their own province, and to the avoidance of any other repeat pairings. Possible repeat pairings are Derry v Donegal, Galway v Mayo, Kerry v Limerick/Cork. If a repeat pairing is drawn, the Round 2 team will be moved to the next line of the draw and another Round 2 team will be drawn to play the relevant Provincial winner.
Venues and dates will be confirmed later by CCCC with matches scheduled to take place across the weekend of June 25/26.
Semi-Finals
Based on a rota, the potential Semi-Final pairings will be known after the Quarter-Final draw.
There’s a lovely international air about Marty Clarke. His commentaries have the vibe of a top international player guesting on League of Ireland commentary on a rare trip home, or those segments during the Open Championship when Jim Nantz would guest on BBC commentary for 20 minutes or so. He’s complimentary without being patronising, but you feel he’s far too good for all this. He’s too fluent to be a product of the GAA. He is from the island of Ireland, but he is not of the island of Ireland.
I just had a lovely chat with Jerome Henry (and his umpires),the ref for todays game, at the deli counter of the petrol station on the dock road
Nice fella, I’d log it in the appropriate thread if it existed.
He had impeccable deli counter manners, though his official GAA uniform meant that he was unable to go incognito, it was clear to the tattooed girl behind the counter that she was dealing with somebody of serious importance
Say it’ll be very tight between Armagh and Donegal.
If McGeeney is worth his salt at all as a coaxh then he’ll have come up with a way to stifle Donegal. There’s no way I can see Donegal winning by just running the channels and avoiding anything other than a low odds shot by Murphy, McBrearty, McHugh, Brennan or Langan.
I’d love to see Donegal take the shackles off and attack down the middle with plenty of running off the should and if that doesn’t work alternate with early ball up to the full forward line.