THERE ARE 15 games live on TV and streaming services next weekend as part of a hectic inter-county championship schedule.
RTÉ have the hurling quarter-final double-header from Thurles on Saturday, while the GAAGO cameras are in Salthill, Omagh and Castlebar for football preliminary quarter-finals on the same day.
The first of the All-Ireland minor football semi-finals on Saturday is live from Mullingar on TG4, while the station has the second game on Sunday from Longford.
Then on Sunday, RTÉ have the Tailteann Cup semi-finals live at Croke Park, while GAAGO have the last preliminary quarter-final from Inniskeen.
TG4 are covering four All-Ireland senior ladies football games on Sunday in the group stages from Waterford, Ballinasloe, Hawkfield and Navan, while Galway-Clare is the live game on Saturday on the Camogie Association YouTube channel.
Here’s the full list of what’s in store.
Saturday
All-Ireland senior hurling quarter-finals
- Dublin v Cork, FBD Semple Stadium, Thurles, 1.15pm - RTÉ 1.
- Clare v Wexford, FBD Semple Stadium, Thurles, 3.15pm - RTÉ 1.
All-Ireland senior football preliminary quarter-finals
- Galway v Monaghan, Pearse Stadium, Salthill, 4pm - GAAGO.
- Tyrone v Roscommon, O’Neills Healy Park, Omagh, 5pm - GAAGO.
- Mayo v Derry, Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, Castlebar, 6.30pm – GAAGO.
All-Ireland minor football semi-final
- Kerry v Derry, TEG Cusack Park, Mullingar, 1.30pm - TG4.
All-Ireland senior camogie championship
- Galway v Clare, Kenny Park, Athenry, 3pm - Camogie Association YouTube.
Sunday
All-Ireland senior football preliminary quarter-final
- Louth v Cork, Grattan Park, Inniskeen, 3pm - GAAGO.
Tailteann Cup semi-finals
- Antrim v Laois, Croke Park, 2pm - RTÉ 2.
- Down v Sligo, Croke Park, 4pm - RTÉ 2.
All-Ireland minor football semi-final
- Armagh v Mayo, Glennon Brothers Pearse Park, Longford, 5.30pm - TG4.
All-Ireland senior ladies football championship
- 1.30pm: Waterford v Donegal, Walsh Park - TG4.
- 2pm: Galway v Laois, Duggan Park, Ballinasloe - Spórt TG4 YouTube.
- 2pm: Kildare v Dublin, Manguard Park - Spórt TG4 YouTube.
- 3.30pm: Meath v Tipperary, Páirc Tailteann, Navan - TG4.
The Joe McDonagh cup is a better competition than the Tailteann, with its winner having a lot better chance of getting a result off a top team next year than the football equivalent. Yet the Tailteann Cup is put in a prime slot that is way about its pedigree. If there was only ten teams in the top football tier it might this competition some credibility. This scheduling is madness and a crime against hurling, the only thing the GAA have currently working for them.
They say there are two things for certain, Taxes and death, but there’s a third one. A hurling snob moaning when they release the TV schedule for the weekend GAA matches.
What a shambles