{"id":500323,"date":"2026-06-15T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500323\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:45:10","slug":"gaa-draw-live-updates-counties-to-learn-opponents-for-all-ireland-football-championship-round-3-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500323\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA draw live updates: Counties to learn opponents for All-Ireland football championship Round 3 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

All-Ireland SFC Round 3 & Tailteann Cup semi-final draws to take place shortly after 8.30am<\/p>\n

Quickfire for those who may have missed the weekend\u2019s results. Here\u2019s how the 2A and 2B fixtures played out:<\/p>\n

Round 2A<\/p>\n

Donegal 1-13 Cork 0-17 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Louth 2-20 Armagh 2-19 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Galway 3-21 Westmeath 2-21 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Tyrone 0-22 Mayo 1-18 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"GAAGAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Round 2A, O’Neill’s Healy Park, Tyrone 14\/6\/2026
\nTyrone vs Mayo
\nTyrone goalkeeper Niall Morgan celebrates his score during the closing stages of the Round 2A fixture against Mayo in Omagh. Photograph: Tom O\u2019Hanlon\/Inpho <\/p>\n

Round 2B<\/p>\n

Monaghan 1-20 Roscommon 0-14 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Kildare 0-17 Kerry 3-22 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Derry 1-20 Meath 1-24 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Cavan 0-16 Dublin 1-24 (report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Good morning everyone! Welcome along to The Irish Times live blog for the draws for the third round of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship<\/a> and the Tailteann Cup<\/a> semi-finals.<\/p>\n

The draws will take place during Morning Ireland on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 shortly after the 8.30am news bulletin.<\/p>\n

In the Sam Maguire draw, which will determine the four pairings for Round 3, are the counties who lost their Round 2A fixtures at the weekend \u2013 Donegal, Armagh, Westmeath and Mayo \u2013 and the counties who won their games in Round 2B \u2013 Monaghan, Kerry, Meath and Dublin.<\/p>\n

The four 2A winners (Cork, Louth, Galway and Tyrone) have scurried off to the quarter-finals, while we waved goodbye to the four 2B losers (Roscommon, Kildare, Derry and Cavan).<\/p>\n

\"Cork'sCork’s Tommy Walsh and Ian Maguire celebrate after beating Donegal in Saturday’s Round 2A fixture in Ballybofey. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo\/Inpho <\/p>\n

With the conclusion of Round 2A, which was the last stage of the new championship format that wasn\u2019t knockout (the losers getting another chance in Round 3), from here on out, it\u2019s win or bust for each of the remaining counties.<\/p>\n

The Tailteann Cup draw is more straightforward \u2013 the four quarter-final winners (Offaly, Wicklow, Down and Fermanagh) are being draw into their respective semi-finals.<\/p>\n

All six games will be played this coming weekend. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be keeping you updated on how the draws pans out, but to get warmed up, have a read if the latest instalment of the Schmozzle below:<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Cork manager John Cleary turns the Jim McGuinness algorithm upside downOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC Round 3 & Tailteann Cup semi-final draws to take place shortly after 8.30am Quickfire for those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[110979,61,60,43,109957],"class_list":["post-500323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-football-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tailteann-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500323","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=500323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}