After losing to Offaly, pre-competition favourites Down are on the road again in Round 3 of the Tailteann Cup, with Longford the opposition for Conor Laverty’s side.<\/p>\n
The Mourne County, winners in 2024, now have to go the long route after their loss to the Faithful in Tullamore.<\/p>\n
Longford, for their part, recorded an excellent win over Clare to make it this far.<\/p>\n
Leitrim play host to Wexford. Stephen Poacher’s troops turned in a strong second-half performance to defeat Carlow on Saturday, while the Slaneysiders will look to bounce back after losing to Fermanagh.<\/p>\n
Aughrim will see another championship game with Wicklow welcoming Tipperary. The Garden County got their campaign back on track when defeating Limerick at the weekend, in what was a repeat of last year’s semi-final. Tipp found Antrim too good in their Round 2A clash on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The final pairing sees London have home advantage for their date with Sligo.<\/p>\n
After being well beaten by Laois the Exiles will look for a response against their Connacht rivals who easily accounted for Waterford in Round 2B.<\/p>\n
The draw for the preliminary quarter-final was also made, with New York travelling to Brewster Park to take on Fermanagh.<\/p>\n
The above games will take place on the weekend of 6\/7 June.<\/p>\n
A week later will see the quarter-finals, where Antrim, Laois and Offaly have already secured their spots.<\/p>\n
Fixture details will be confirmed by the CCCC shortly.<\/p>\n
Tailteann Cup Round 3
Leitrim v Wexford
Wicklow v Tipperary
Longford v Down
London v Sligo<\/p>\n
Tailteann Cup preliminary quarter-final
Fermanagh v New York<\/p>\n
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Watch The Saturday Game from 9.50pm and The Sunday Game from 9.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on all matches on the RT\u00c9 News app and on rte.ie\/sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing to Offaly, pre-competition favourites Down are on the road again in Round 3 of the Tailteann…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-466253","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\/466253","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=466253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}