{"id":478919,"date":"2026-06-02T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478919\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:22:08","slug":"big-hitters-avoid-each-other-in-all-ireland-sfc-draw-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478919\/","title":{"rendered":"Big hitters avoid each other in All-Ireland SFC draw \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The big hitters have avoided each other in Rounds 2A and 2B of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-championship\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-championship\/\">All-Ireland senior football championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a somewhat underwhelming draw on Tuesday morning, the leading contenders for Sam Maguire appear to have dodged worst case scenarios \u2013 though Jack O\u2019Connor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kerry-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kerry-gaa\/\">Kerry<\/a> will have to negotiate an away trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kildare-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kildare-gaa\/\">Kildare<\/a> for a winner-takes-all 2B clash in Newbridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ger Brennan\u2019s Dublin will also be on the road in Round 2B with the Dubs away to Cavan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In Round 2A, Donegal will host Cork while Leinster champions Westmeath are away to Galway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The winners of the four 2A fixtures will advance to the All-Ireland quarter-final stages. The four losers in 2A will play the four winners of 2B in Round 3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The four losers in 2B will be eliminated from the championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">All 2A and 2B fixtures are to be played on the weekend of June 13th-14th, with the CCCC to confirm fixture details shortly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ROUND 2A<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Donegal v Cork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Galway v Westmeath<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tyrone v Mayo<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Louth v Armagh<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ROUND 2B<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Derry v Meath<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kildare v Kerry<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cavan v Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Monaghan v Roscommon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big hitters have avoided each other in Rounds 2A and 2B of the All-Ireland senior football championship.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6937,6342,2179,110979,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-478919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-donegal-gaa","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-football-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478919","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=478919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}