The draw for the first round of the 2026 Tailteann Cup will take place on Monday lunchtime with the last of the 16 places still yet to be determined.<\/p>\n
The teams definitely involved in the draw are Waterford, Wicklow, Sligo, London, Limerick, Laois, Leitrim Tipperary, Fermanagh, Longford, Offaly, Antrim, Clare, Carlow, and Wexford.<\/p>\n
Depending on results, the 16th team in the Tailteann Cup will either be Westmeath, Down or Cavan.<\/p>\n
Westmeath could seal a place in the All-Ireland series if they beat Kildare in the Leinster Football Championship, with the other semi-finals results to determine which team will be in the second tier competition.<\/p>\n
The draw, which will begin from 1pm, will be open with the first team out in each tie enjoying home advantage.<\/p>\n
The majority of fixtures will be played on the weekend of 9 \/ 10 May.<\/p>\n
However, any games involving a team knocked out of their provincial championship on the weekend of 2 \/ 3 May will take place on the weekend 16 \/ 17 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The draw for the first round of the 2026 Tailteann Cup will take place on Monday lunchtime with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-418883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418883","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=418883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}