{"id":436661,"date":"2026-05-07T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436661\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:01:08","slug":"all-ireland-masters-football-championship-2026-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436661\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Masters Football Championship 2026 begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim-Longford begin their respective All-Ireland Masters football championship campaigns this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sligo are first in action on Thursday evening as they travel to Ballinameen to play Roscommon.<\/p>\n<p>Throw-in is at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s All-Ireland finalists Donegal have their first outing on Satudray in Bundoran as they host Cavan in Gaelic Park at 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>For the Leitrim-Longford amalgamation, it&#8217;s a trip to Claregalway on Saturday afternoon to take on Galway (2pm).<\/p>\n<p>Reigning All-Ireland Masters champions Tyrone begin their title defence on Saturday against Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>The counties will play six rounds of matches to determine who reaches the knockout stages of the 2026 championship.<\/p>\n<p>All-Ireland Masters Football Championship &#8211; Round 1 fixtures<br \/>Thursday, May 7th<br \/>Roscommon v Sligo<br \/>Ballinameen, 7pm<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 9th<br \/>Donegal v Cavan<br \/>Bundoran, 1pm<\/p>\n<p>Galway v Leitrim-Longford<br \/>Claregalway, 2pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim-Longford begin their respective All-Ireland Masters football championship campaigns this weekend. Sligo are first in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-436661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436661","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=436661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}