{"id":500134,"date":"2026-06-15T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500134\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:09:11","slug":"dublin-kerry-and-galway-book-home-quarter-final-spots-in-race-for-tg4-all-ireland-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500134\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin, Kerry and Galway book home quarter-final spots in race for TG4 All-Ireland title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTG4 All-Ireland Championship round-up<\/p>\n<p>By John Fallon<\/p>\n<p>Reigning TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin and both of last year\u2019s beaten semi-finalists Galway and Kerry have booked home quarter-finals in the race for the Brendan Martin Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Niamh Hetherton and Caoimhe O\u2019Connor in a strong second half showing powered Dublin to a 2-13 to 0-5 win over Donegal, having led by 0-6 to 0-4 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Gallagher scored four points for Donegal who will now face Mayo next weekend to decide which other team advances from Group 3 to the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle O\u2019Leary scored 1-3 as Kerry booked home advantage in the last eight as they saw off Kildare by 1-19 to 0-8 in Newbridge, having built up a 1-9 to 0-3 lead in the opening half.<\/p>\n<p>Aoife Rattigan and Molly Aspell scored seven points between them for a Kildare side who face Tipperary next weekend to see who advances to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Galway also made it two wins in a row as Olivia Divilly hit 2-6 and R\u00f3is\u00edn Leonard got 1-6 as they ousted Tyrone by 4-20 to 2-7 in Tuam. Galway, whose other goal came from Leanne Coen, led by 1-8 to 2-2 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Niamh O\u2019Neill and Sorcha Gormally scored all but two points of Tyrone\u2019s tally. They face Meath next weekend with the winners advancing to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>There was late drama in Dungarvan when Cork, the reigning Lidl Division One league champions, came from five points down with seven minutes remaining to pip Waterford by 1-15 to 1-14.<\/p>\n<p>Waterford, who now head to Armagh next weekend with all three teams in Group 1 still in contention, led by 1-8 to 0-4 at the break thanks to a goal from Karen McGrath but got caught at the death with Katie Quirke scoring a late penalty before then hitting the winner with five seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Monaghan, Roscommon, Wexford, Down and Fermanagh booked quarter-final places in the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate championship where they will join Westmeath, Clare and Leitrim in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p>Results:<\/p>\n<p>TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship<\/p>\n<p>Group 1: Cork 1-15 Waterford 1-14<\/p>\n<p>Group 2: Kerry 1-19 Kildare 0-3<\/p>\n<p>Group 3: Dublin 2-13 Donegal 0-5<\/p>\n<p>Group 4: Galway 4-20 Tyrone 2-7<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship<\/p>\n<p>Group 1: Roscommon 2-13 Down 1-12<\/p>\n<p>Group 2: Monaghan 1-10 Louth 0-9<\/p>\n<p>Group 3: Wexford 5-12 Laois 2-14<\/p>\n<p>Group 4: Fermanagh 2-18 Wicklow 1-7<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship<\/p>\n<p>Group A: Derry 6-10 Longford 0-10<\/p>\n<p>Offaly 5-27 Kilkenny 0-3<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Limerick 2-20 London 0-1<\/p>\n<p>Carlow 2-14 Sligo 0-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TG4 All-Ireland Championship round-up By John Fallon Reigning TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin and both of last year\u2019s beaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-500134","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\/500134","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=500134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}