Women's football championship play-off: All you need to know
TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship relegation play-off
Donegal v Leitrim, Kilcoyne Park, Tubbercurry, Sligo, 2pm.
TV
Live coverage on the Spórt TG4 YouTube channel.
ONLINE
Score updates and match reports available on RTÉ Sport Online and RTÉ News app.
RADIO
Score updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport.
WEATHER
Saturday will be very warm or hot with temperatures reaching 26 to 30 degrees. It will be dry and sunny with light to moderate southeasterly winds.
Last-chance saloon for Donegal and Leitrim
Donegal and Leitrim have one more chance to stay alive in the senior championship.
The winners will play in the elite grade again next year, with the losers facing the intermediate ranks.
Leitrim were TG4 All-Ireland intermediate champions last year and will be keen to avoid dropping down.
Donegal, meanwhile, have been a senior force since capturing the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate title in 2010.
Both counties have already had chances to stay afloat but they lost out in provincial derbies, Donegal to Armagh and Leitrim to Mayo.
Following a ten-point loss to Armagh, Donegal make one change in personnel, with Eva Gallagher replacing Aoife McDermott in the inside forward line.
The Leitrim team that lost out to Mayo by seven points also shows one change for this do-or-die clash, with Aoife Gilmartin coming in for Muireann Devaney up front.
Donegal: C Friel; S McFadden, A Temple Asokuh, S McFeeley; B McLaughlin, E McGinley, C Gillespie; R Rodgers (capt.), R McColgan; S White, K Dowds, F McManamon; E Gallagher, J McFadden, N Boyle.
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