{"id":488759,"date":"2026-06-08T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488759\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:25:18","slug":"familiar-faces-to-reunite-following-tailteann-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488759\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar faces to reunite following Tailteann Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laois and Down will meet in the Tailteann Cup quarter-final, a repeat of the 2024 decider won by the Mourne County.<\/p>\n

Down bounced back from their surprise loss to Offaly by easing past Longford <\/a>on Sunday, and they will be on the road again to Portlaoise this week where Laois boss Justin McNulty will reunite with Armagh 2002 All-Ireland winning team-mate Tony McEntee, part of Conor Laverty’s Down coaching team.<\/p>\n

Fermanagh were denied the week off that three teams from the winners’ path received as they were drawn against New York in the preliminary quarter-final, but that comprehensive win on Saturday <\/a>has secured a home date against Sligo.<\/p>\n

There will be a Donegal feel to the tie with Declan Bonner in charge of the Erne County while 2012 All-Ireland winner Eamon McGee is part of Eamonn O’Hara and Dessie Sloyan\u2019s Sligo backroom team.<\/p>\n

Familiarity will also be a feature at Corrigan Park as Antrim host Wicklow.<\/p>\n

Ois\u00edn McConville will bring the Garden County north to face a side managed by Mark Doran, previously his right-hand man at Wicklow.<\/p>\n

The final quarter-final will see Offaly host a Wexford side that got the better of Leitrim at the weekend having held them scoreless in the first half.<\/a><\/p>\n

Times and dates are to be confirmed on Monday evening with games to take place 13-14 June.<\/p>\n

Tailteann Cup quarter-final draw (first named team has home advantage)<\/p>\n

Fermanagh v Sligo<\/p>\n

Laois v Down<\/p>\n

Offaly v Wexford<\/p>\n

Antrim v Wicklow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laois and Down will meet in the Tailteann Cup quarter-final, a repeat of the 2024 decider won by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-488759","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\/488759","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=488759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}