Hello and welcome along to our coverage of a busy evening of All-Ireland qualifier action, both football and hurling. We’ll be providing updates here for three matches:
All-Ireland senior football championship qualifiers:
- Mayo v Derry, Elverys MacHale Park, Castlebar, 5pm (Live on RTÉ2)
- Donegal v Longford, Ballybofey, 5pm
All-Ireland senior hurling championship qualifiers:
- Tipperary v Westmeath, Semple Stadium, 5pm
Here’s how the sides are set to line out at MacHale Park.
Mayo:
1. David Clarke
2. Brendan Harrison
3. Ger Cafferkey
4. Chris Barrett
5. Colm Boyle
6. Lee Keegan
7. Patrick Durcan
8. Seamus O’Shea
9. Tom Parsons
10. Fergal Boland
11. Diarmuid O’Connor
12. Stephen Coen
13. Kevin McLoughlin
14. Cillian O’Connor
15. Andy Moran
Derry:
1. Ben McKinless
2. Niall Keenan
3. Brendan Rogers
4. Karl McKaigue
5. Ciaran McFaul
6. Christopher McKaigue
7. Carlus McWilliams Baile
8. Conor McAtamney
9. Danny Heavron
10. Ryan Bell
11. Niall Loughlin
12. Enda Lynn
13. Danny Tallon
14. Emmett McGuckin
15. Benny Heron
Just as that posted, we’ve had two late changes in the Mayo camp. Aidan O’Shea and Donal Vaughan now start.
Meanwhile, 17. Michael McEvoy replaces 14. Emmett McGuckin on the Derry starting team.
Donegal and Longford left it late to name their teams, but here’s a look.
Donegal:
1. Mark Anthony McGinley
2. Paddy McGrath
3. Neil McGee
4. Caolan Ward
5. Ryan McHugh
6. Frank McGlynn
7. Eoghan ‘Ban’ Gallagher
8. Jason McGee
9. Ciaran Thompson
10. Michael Carroll
11. Martin O’Reilly
12. Eoin McHugh
13. Patrick McBrearty
14. Michael Murphy
15. Cian Mulligan
Longford:
1. Paddy Collum
2. Diarmuid Masterson
3. Padraig McCormack
4. Barry Gilleran
5. Donal McElligott
6. Michael Quinn
7. Dessie Reynolds
8. John Keegan
9. David McGivney
10. Daniel Mimnagh
11. James McGivney
12. Darren Gallagher
13. Robbie Smyth
14. Liam Connerton
15. Barry McKeon
Tipp and Westmeath have also shown their hand ahead of the hurling action.
Tipperary:
1. Daragh Mooney
2. Donagh Maher
3. Tomás Hamill
4. James Barry
5. Joe O’Dwyer
6. Ronan Maher
7. Padraic Maher
8. Brendan Maher
9. Noel McGrath
10. Dan McCormack
11. Patrick Maher
12. Michael Breen
13. John O’Dwyer
14. Seamus Callanan
15. Niall O’Meara
Westmeath:
1. Paddy Carroll
2. Shane Power
3. Tommy Doyle
4. Gary Greville
5. Aaron Craig
6. Paul Greville
7. Liam Varley
8. Aonghus Clarke
9. Robbie Greville
10. Joey Boyle
11. Killian Doyle
12. Derek McNicholas
13. Allan Devine
14. Niall Mitchell
15. Niall O Brien
Joe Brolly has received a warm welcome in Castlebar.
“I just can’t bring myself to predict a Mayo win,” he laughs, on RTÉ2. “But I can see the logic of it!”
Late change in Ballybofey – Michael Langan starts for Donegal in place of Cian Mulligan.
We’re underway at MacHale Park. Donegal and Longford, and Tipperary and Westmeath are have also thrown in around the grounds.
Tipperary 0-0 Westmeath 0-2
Allan Devine and Niall O’Brien get proceedings underway at Semple Stadium.
Donegal 0-0 Longford 0-1
The visitors draw first blood in Donegal.
Tipperary 0-2 Westmeath 0-2
Meanwhile, the reigning All-Ireland champions Tipp have leveled matters after Westmeath’s dream start and it’s 0-2 a-piece.
Mayo 0-1 Derry 0-1
6mins – Niall Loughlin points a free. Derry are putting Mayo under pressure, and creating chances.
Tipperary 0-4 Westmeath 0-4
John O’Dwyer and Killian Doyle exchange scores.
Donegal 0-1 Longford 0-1
Michael Murphy opens his account with a free.
Mayo 0-2 Derry 0-2
10mins – Loughlin scores his second. Lovely point.
Tipperary 0-5 Westmeath 0-4
Brendan Maher splits the posts.
Longford 0-2 Donegal 0-1
13mins – David McGivney takes the lead for Longford through a free-kick.
Tipperary 1-8 Westmeath 0-4
16mins – John O’Dwyer taps into an empty net.
Mayo 0-2 Derry 0-4
17mins – The visitors have taken a two-point lead in Castlebar.
Mayo 0-3 Derry 0-4
19mins – Nearly a goal for Mayo. Andy Moran’s effort hits the angle of the crossbar and there’s a scramble around the goal, but it’s kept out. Important stop by Ben McKinless with his feet.
Tipperary 1-9 Westmeath 0-4
19mins – Callanan tags on another free.
Donegal 0-1 Longford 0-2
19mins – No change to the score in Ballybofey, but qualifier kings Longford are living up to their names. Donegal are struggling.
Mayo 0-4 Derry 0-5
23mins – O’Connor slots over another free-kick. Three from three. Aidan O’Shea has left the pitch as a blood sub.
Donegal 0-2 Longford 0-3
22mins – Paddy McBrearty hits Donegal’s first point from play, in response to McGivney’s previous free.
Mayo 0-5 Derry 0-5
26mins – Derry with a dangerous attack, and a goal chance but Mayo escape. Lee Keegan fists over at the other end. We’re level for the third time.
Tipperary 1-9 Westmeath 0-7
27mins – Derek McNicholas and Paul Greville keep Westmeath in touch.
Mayo 0-6 Derry 0-7
31mins – O’Connor ties matters with another free, but Loughlin edges the visitors ahead with one at the other end. It’s his fourth score, three of them have come from frees.
Tipperary 1-9 Westmeath 0-9
31mins – Just three between the sides as Allan Devine adds another to give the Westmeath fans something to shout about.
Donegal 0-2 Longford 0-4
33mins – A third free from McGivney to put Longford two up. Just two points from Donegal in 33 minutes, one of them a free.
Mayo 0-7 Derry 0-8
37mins – Loughlin edges Derry in front as the half-time whistle sounds.
Tipperary 1-10 Westmeath 0-9
Ronan Maher point as the clock runs down.
Half-time around the grounds.
- Mayo 0-7 Derry 0-8
- Donegal 0-3 Longford 0-4
- Tipperary 1-10 Westmeath 0-9
So, what do we think so far?
Can Derry push on to cause a shock in Castlebar? What’s going on in Ballybofey? How are Westmeath coping with the reigning All-Ireland champions?
Let us know in the comments section below.
We’re back underway at MacHale Park.
Diarmuid O’Connor — a late omission — is on for Fergal Boland.
Mayo 0-7 Derry 0-9
36mins – Another super score from Ryan Bell. Stephen Coen and Ciaran McFaul are both booked for an off the ball incident.
Tipperary 1-11 Westmeath 0-9
Callanan opens proceedings in Thurles with another free.
Donegal 0-3 Longford 0-5
Robbie Smyth gets Longford’s second half off to a good start.
Mayo 0-9 Derry 0-9
40mins – We’re level for the sixth time in Castlebar, as O’Connor makes no mistake with a free.
Donegal 0-4 Longford 0-5
41mins – Michael Murphy points a free.
Tipperary 1-11 Westmeath 0-11
Three between the sides in Thurles. It’s a one score game.
Mayo 0-9 Derry 0-10
45mins – Diarmuid O’Connor has a long range effort, which drops short. His brother Cillian has a goal chance with the rebound but it sweeps across the face of goal. Fantastic score from Danny Heavron to put Derry ahead.
Donegal 0-5 Longford 0-5
Martin McElhinney levels matters from play.
Mayo 0-10 Derry 0-10
50mins – Andy Moran’s rocket hits the post, and McKinless pulls off a super save to deny O’Connor. He nails the subsequent 45, his seventh score of the day.
Tipperary 1-12 Westmeath 0-12
45mins – John O’Dwyer with the free, but Westmeath show true character and it’s a one score game yet again.
Donegal 0-6 Longford 0-6
Paddy McBrearty puts Donegal ahead, but Diarmuid Masterson pulls one back.
Mayo 0-10 Derry 0-12
58mins – Super save as Mayo are denied another goal! At the other end, the Oak Leaf county have nailed another free and they’re two points up.
Tipperary 1-15 Westmeath 0-12
62mins – John McGrath and John O’Dwyer push Tipp further on.
Donegal 0-9 Longford 0-6
Jamie Brennan and Eoin McHugh from play to put Donegal three points ahead.
Mayo 0-10 Derry 0-12
64mins – Mayo are squandering chances, they’ve just hit their 16th wide. They need something special.
Tipperary 1-17 Westmeath 0-12
64mins – Noel McGrath tags on another score.
Donegal 0-10 Longford 0-6
McBrearty with another free.
Tipperary 1-17 Westmeath 0-13
66mins – Seven between the sides.
Mayo 1-11 Derry 0-12
GOAL! Absolute rocket from Conor Loftus, with just about a minute of normal time remaining.
Mayo 1-12 Derry 1-12
71mins- GOAL! Derry somehow get the ball into the back of the net, palmed in from a high ball. There’s confusion as the umpire half waves the flag, and the scoreboard on TV doesn’t move. It’s counted!
Previously, 22-year-old Loftus followed up his goal with a point.
Tipperary 1-18 Westmeath 0-13
73mins – Jason Forde point.
Donegal 0-11 Longford 0-7
We’re into stoppage time in Ballybofey too.
Mayo 1-12 Derry 1-12
74mins – Cillian O’Connor’s pointed effort hits the post. Big ask as Derry have a free from the right sideline, it drops short.
Tipperary 2-18 Westmeath 0-13
John McGrath goal.
Donegal 0-12 Longford 0-7
All over in Ballybofey.
Full time elsewhere though.
- Tipperary 2-18 Westmeath 0-15
- Donegal 0-12 Longford 0-7
Two ten minutes of extra time. It’s 1-12 a-piece. Who will come out on top?
It looked like Conor Loftus was going to be the hero from the bench, but Derry’s Mark Lynch and his punch into the net ended that fairly quickly.
Mayo 1-13 Derry 1-12
Kevin McLoughlin has the first say. Good play from Aidan O’Shea in the lead up.
Mayo 1-14 Derry 1-12
3mins ET – We’re seeing a lot of tired bodies, particularly on the Derry front, but still all to be played for. O’Connor slots over a close-range free, his eighth point of the match.
Mayo 2-14 Derry 1-12
GOAL! Jason Doherty punishes a bad kick-out and rattles the net.
Mayo 2-15 Derry 1-13
7mins ET – Goalscorer Mark Lynch keeps Derry in touch. O’Connor probably should have stuck a goal at the other end, but a super save denies him again.
Mayo 2-15 Derry 1-13
MISS! David Clarke saves James Kielt’s penalty — he judged it perfectlty.
Mayo 2-21 Derry 1-13
Diarmuid O’Connor hits his only point of the match. Two additional minutes to be played.
And it’s all over. Stephen Rochford’s Mayo progress after a huge battle in Castlebar.
Full-time:
Mayo 2-21 Derry 1-13 (AET)
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With the time off and the cushie jobs they practically are paid professionals
#teachershaveithandy
When a hurling county treats gaelic football with the contempt that it deserves by ignoring it, domination follows…
pity tipp wouldn’t follow suit! hurling is gonna suffer in tipp with way football is going in the county :)
I couldn’t agree with you more Shane. Ger Loughnane pointed out a skills deficit in the Tipp minor hurlers on the Sunday Game. Worrying to see young Tipp hurlers taking the dual player route.
They are still it that good at senior! Maybe they get over u21 and think better stick to the hurls!
I coach u 10s in my club and we never ever do football yet we played one the best teams around here in a football challenge as they asked and bet them . same wouldn’t happen in hurling
Kilkenny won the double this year I’ll have you know.
They won the English Junior championship. That is the level they are at. Contempt I would not call it. If it was they would not play it at all. Just like the Connacht Hurling Championship.
Connacht even struggle in football while mayo, roscommon leitrim plus sligo line out hurling teams in the christy ring,nicky rackard, and lory meagher tournaments so there’s no comparsion there man plus they’re not playing against foreign junior teams. Kilkenny has a bigger population than the latter three I mentioned so like for like comparsion are pretty weak.
Warwickshire and Lancashire both play the Lory Meagher cup both of these teams play in the British Junior Championship so yes Sligo, Letrim and the like play “foreign teams”
There is no equivalent to the Lory Meagher, Nicky Rackard or Christy ring in football, therefore KK have to play a lower league football somewhere.
Plus who gives a crap (obviously counties who play both and win nothing) if Kilkenny focus just on 1 has sport. Kilkenny also only have 1 rugby team in the county. It just means we can be better at that 1 sport.
They is a mad committed group. Da kilkenny crew be a well oiled machine.
@jason *iarla Tannion broke TJ’s knee.
British junior championship
I stand corrected it was Tannion.
That’s right it was the British Junior. They played Scotland in the Semi Final!!
Having grown up in Kilkenny, I can testify that hurling is everything there. Almost every child plays it from a young age (even if not all of them like it) and the ones who are really good usually go to St. Kieran’s where they are moulded into the kind of hurlers that win All-Irelands. It’s like a hurling academy with excellent facilities. Almost the entire panel from last Sunday went to school there (including Brian Cody) with only a few notable exceptions. They’ve won 20 all Ireland colleges titles and over 50 Leinster Championships.
If you want a parallel in rugby, it’s like the Christchurch Boys School that has produced the likes of Dan Carter, Graham Henry, Andrew Merthens, Brodie Retallick and Steve Hansen and has been one of the drivers of the success of the All Blacks.
I agree with all you said above except you would be very surprised that 7-8 of that starting team were not in St Kieran’s.
Between Scoil Aergail in Ballyhale and a few went to new Ross and some of the younger panelists went to CBS.
But I firmly believe the basis of any good minor team is off a lot of work done in St Kierans.
brilliant post! hurling is the sport in kk! I’d say as soon as kids can walk they’re handed a hurley
Yep Jason, I went to Scoil Aireagail. :-) Was a year ahead of Michael Fennelly all through school. Not a pure hurling school as we were fairly successful in other sports like soccer and cross-country running but still produced many top hurlers over the years. None of the Fennellys went to Kieran’s but they come from a family dynasty of successful players and managers so they didn’t need to! They also benefit from playing for the most successful hurling club in the country in the Ballyhale Shamrocks. They’ve been playing with the likes of Shefflin and the Reids since they were young lads. I’d be willing to bet that many hurlers who didn’t make it on the Kilkenny senior panel who would get into almost any other county’s starting 15. Some probably had the talent but not the discipline to play under Cody. The well of talent is very big for such a small county.
Like a religion
Special Good Wishes… Am I missing something here??