Hello and welcome to tonight’s draw. It’s hard to believe that we’re planning for next season already when the champagne corks – or stale beer cans – are only going into the recycling bin from this year’s championship.

But to the future we must look and by the end of tonight’s draw you’ll know exactly how difficult or easy your team’s opening hurling or football fixture will be in the 2015 championship.

Feel free to comment below with who you’d like your county to draw and why.

If you’re wondering exactly how tonight’s draw will work, here’s one we prepared earlier:

• Explainer: Here’s what you need to know ahead of the 2015 GAA draws tonight

We’re still ten minutes away from tonight’s draw which gives you loads of time to read John Gardiner’s thoughts on all of yesterday’s managerial appointments, especially this guy:

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• John Gardiner: ‘Ger was players’ choice for Cork boss after ’06, now he’s ideal fit for Dublin’

Ah there’s The Sunday Game music, seems like only a couple of weeks since we heard it last…

RTÉ are starting with a look back at this year’s championships and some Future Islands

There’s six draws tonight, four in football and two in hurling.

First up is the hurling draw which begins in Leinster and the 2015 race for the Bob O’Keefe Cup.

The Leinster SHC will feature a four-team round-robin Qualifying group – consisting of Antrim, Laois, Carlow and Westmeath – with the top two sides earning the right to progress to the quarter-finals.

Last year’s champions Kilkenny will receive a bye to the semi-finals while Galway, Wexford, Dublin and Offaly start off in the quarters.

The first name Dublin and they’ll play Galway in the quarter-finals. Ger v Anthony Cunningham.

Offaly will play the group winners from the Qualifying group

The Qualifying group runners up will take on Wexford in the last quarter-final draw.

Here’s the full draw in Leinster, right up until the semi-finals.

Dublin v Galway the obvious highlight:

We move south now to Munster which works as follows:

Obviously, the Munster SHC consists of just five counties – Tipperary, Cork, Clare, Waterford and Limerick – where two sides are drawn to face-off in a quarter-final.

The winner of that last eight clash will join the other three Munster teams in the semi-final pairings.

The first name out of the bowl in Munster is Waterford and they go straight through to the semi-final with Cork.

All-Ireland finalists Tipperary are also straight through to the semi-finals.

This means Clare and Limerick will meet in the quarter-final.

Here’s the draw in full, close rivals Clare and Limerick will play off in the quarter-final to meet Tipperary in the semi-final.

Cork will play Waterford in the other.

And that’s obviously the end of the hurling. There’s a bit of a break now while we swap hurleys for, eh, feet for the football draw.

We move from Munster to Munster but this time we’re talking football.

There’s a new format this year which will come into effect next summer.

Kerry and Cork will receive a bye into the last four of the competition because of they made the final last year, while Waterford, Limerick, Clare and Tipperary enter an open draw for the two quarter-final ties.

The two winners of those quarter-final games will then enter an open draw for the semi-finals along with Cork and Kerry.

Whatever two sides make the final will be seeded in the last four in 2016.

First out of the bowl is Waterford who go into a quarter-final with Division 4 winners Tipperary.

Clare and Limerick will meet in the other quarter-final.

The winners of that Clare/Limerick game will play Cork.

That means Kerry will play the winners of Waterford/Tipperary.

Will we have another Cork v Kerry final on our hands?

Here’s the Munster football draw in full:

We’re off to Connacht now.

Ahead of tonight’s draw we already know two games that will be taking place. Galway will travel to the States to take on New York, while Roscommon will play London in Ruislip, both in the quarter-finals.

Another quarter-final will take place between two of Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim with the other county receiving a bye to the semi-finals.

With the other quarter-final already decided, New York or Galway will play Leitrim.

The semi-finals will see London/Roscommon v Sligo and New York/Galway/Leitrim v Mayo.

Here’s the Connacht draw in full and it looks like Roscommon have a great chance to reach the provincial final:

Ulster is up next and it’s the handiest of draws as it’s unseeded and consists of one preliminary round and four quarter-finals.

Donegal and Tyrone will play in the preliminary round. What a draw.

The winners of that game will play Armagh in the quarter-finals.

Cavan will face Monaghan in the second quarter-final.

Next out is Fermanagh who’ll play Antrim.

And Derry v Down make up the other quarter-final.

This looks like a nice draw for those at the top. Not so good for those at the bottom:

And now we move on to the final province of the night, Leinster.

A round robin system could well be introduced into Leinster from 2016 onwards, so this may be the final season under the current format.

Last year’s four semi-finalists – Dublin, Wexford, Kildare and Meath – receive a bye to the quarter-finals where they cannot meet one another.

To start off, there are three preliminary games for a place in the last eight, which will be played between six of Wicklow, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Louth and Carlow.

One of that group receives a bye to the last eight but are unseeded.

Offaly will play Longford in the first round.

And they’ll play Dublin in the quarter-finals. Good luck with that lads!

Laois will play Carlow for the right to play Kildare in the quarter-finals.

Louth will face Westmeath and the winners will play Wexford in the quarter-finals.

That means Wicklow will host Meath in the other quarter-final.

Oh look, it’s a probably going to be a Meath v Dublin final again.

For a change.

And that’s all from us.

Thanks as always for joining in.