{"id":459003,"date":"2026-05-20T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459003\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:00:12","slug":"everything-to-know-as-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459003\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything to know as All-Ireland Senior Football Championship gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Round one of the All-Ireland Senior Championship<\/a> gets underway this week, with some cracking ties in store.<\/p>\n

Kerry v Donegal<\/p>\n

Reigning champions Kerry face Donegal in a repeat of last year\u2019s decider and the more recent Division 1 final in Croke Park. Jim McGuinness\u2019 men got revenge for last year\u2019s All-Ireland final, with a 13-point win in the League final in March.<\/p>\n

\"patrick Patrick McBrearty of Donegal during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship final, 2025. Pic: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

The Kingdom are fresh off winning the Munster SFC final against Cork, to win the inaugural P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9 cup<\/a>. Donegal surrendered their provincial title this year, with Armagh beating Monaghan in the final last weekend.<\/p>\n

The game will take place at 3:00 pm, May 23, in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney, and will be streamed on GAA+.<\/p>\n

Cork v Meath<\/p>\n

The second game of the weekend sees Meath Travel to Cork in what will be a repeat of the Division Two final, which was claimed by the Royal County. John Cleary\u2019s side have already shown progress in 2026, securing promotion in the league and reaching a first Munster final in five years, in which they came out on the wrong side, losing to Kerry by eight points.<\/p>\n

\"all-ireland\"Colm O\u2019Callaghan of Cork in action against Daithi Hogan of Tipperary. Pic: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

Meath\u2019s last game came against Westmeath<\/a>, when the Royals were knocked out of the Leinster race by their neighbours, in one of the first shocks of the championship season.<\/p>\n

The tie will take place at 5:30 pm, May 23, in P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn, and will also be streamed on GAA+.<\/p>\n

Galway v Kildare<\/p>\n

The final game of Saturday\u2019s action sees Galway host Kildare in Pearse Stadium. After their shock loss to Roscommon two weeks ago, the\u00a0Tribesmen will be looking to start their All-Ireland campaign with a win against Kildare.<\/p>\n

\"BrianBrian McLoughlin of Kildare in action against Peter Nash of Limerick during the Tailteann Cup final, 2025. Pic: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

Kildare won the Tailteann Cup last year, meaning they qualify for this year\u2019s All-Ireland SFC. They lost out in the semi-final of the Leinster Championship to Westmeath\u00a0by four points. They haven\u2019t beaten Galway at a senior level since 1985, and it will be their first competitive meeting since 2018.<\/p>\n

The match will take place at 7:30 pm, May 23, in Pearse Stadium, Salthill, and will be shown live on RTE Sport.<\/p>\n

Roscommon v Tyrone<\/p>\n

The final game of the All-Ireland opening weekend takes place between Roscommon and Tyrone. The Rossies have been in flying form so far in this championship season and come into the game after victories over\u00a0Mayo and Galway in the provincial semi-final and final to win the Connacht crown.<\/p>\n

\"DiarmuidDiarmuid Murtagh of Roscommon during the Connacht GAA Football Senior Championship final. Pic: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

Tyrone suffered a difficult league campaign, winning just two out of seven league games in Division Two. The Red Hands almost pulled off an upset win over Armagh but lost out to Kieran McGeeney\u2019s men after extra time.<\/p>\n

The game will take place at 2:00 pm, May 24, in King & Moffatt Dr. Hyde Park, and will be shown on GAA+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round one of the All-Ireland Senior Championship gets underway this week, with some cracking ties in store. Kerry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-459003","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\/459003","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=459003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}