Dublin and Donegal will meet in the opening round of the 2026 Allianz Football League as part of a Croke Park double-header on Saturday, 24 January.<\/p>\n
The 5pm throw-in will see Ger Brennan take charge of his first competitive match as Dublin manager after stepping away from the Louth job, with the Division 1 clash against Jim McGuinness’ Donegal coming after the Division 2 game between Meath and Derry at 3pm.<\/p>\n
The other Division 1 fixtures from the opening weekend fall on Sunday, 25 January with Connacht rivals Galway and Mayo going head-to-head in Salthill at 1.45pm, before All-Ireland champions Kerry take on Roscommon and Monaghan go up against Armagh in 2pm throw-ins in Killarney and Clones respectively.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, All-Ireland champions Tipperary will open up Division 1A of the Allianz Hurling League against Galway on the Saturday at Semple Stadium with a 7pm start time. That will follow the afternoon fixtures between Carlow v Down and Wexford v Antrim in 1B.<\/p>\n
The following day, Kilkenny v Offaly and Cork v Waterford will begin their 1A campaigns, while Clare and Dublin meet in Ennis in 1B.<\/p>\n
Watch the Leinster club finals, Athy v Ballyboden St Endas in football and Ballyhale Shamrocks v St Martin’s in hurling, on Saturday from 4.15pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin and Donegal will meet in the opening round of the 2026 Allianz Football League as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-173047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}