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All Ireland quarter-final draw to be held live on RTÉ Radio 1

All Ireland quarter-final draw to be held live on RTÉ Radio 1

RTÉ News​20-06-2025
The GAA have confirmed that the draw for the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland SFC will take place live on Monday morning on RTÉ Radio 1.
The draw will be held on the 8:30am sport bulletin on Morning Ireland, will a live feed also available on the RTÉ News channel and RTÉ Player.
The four winners from this weekend's preliminary quarter-finals will be drawn against the winners of the four round-robin groups.
As before in the competition, redraws will be held to prevent the avoidance of repeat provincial final pairings and, where possible, repeat pairings from round 1.
Teams will be split into two pots with Armagh, Monaghan, Tyrone and Meath playing against the winners of the preliminaries; Dublin or Cork, Down or Galway, Donegal or Louth and Kerry or Cavan.
The fixtures that will not be allowed to be repeated are Armagh v Dublin/Galway/Donegal, Monaghan v Down/Louth, Tyrone v Donegal/Cavan and Meath v Louth/Kerry/Cork.
The draws will be presided over by Uachtarán CLG Jarlath Burns and Feargal McGill, GAA Director of Player, Club and Games Administration and the quarter-final will take place in Croke Park on the weekend of 28 and 29 June.
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