Tailteann Cup 2025

[The Boy Wonder]

No matter how you dress it up the Tailteann Cup will always be a 2nd tier competition.

The provincial championships are the main obstacle to a proper open-draw knock-out Sam Maguire competition.

Open-draw Sam Maguire Cup
Round 1: Open draw for the 16 Division 3 and Division 4 teams
Round 2: Open draw for 8 Round 1 winners and 8 Division 2 teams
Round 3 (last 16): Open draw for 8 Round 2 winners and 8 Division 1 teams
Round 4 (quarter-finals) : Open draw for Round 3 winners
All-Ireland Semi-Finals : Open draw for Round 4 winners
All-Ireland Final: What odds on a Round 1 winner reaching final ?  e.g. 2025 Kildare, Offaly ?

The possibilities that the open draw provides and the likelihood of shocks would made it far more exciting that the current 2-tier round-robin system. Who is to say that Division 3 teams such as Laois, Sligo and Wicklow could not progress to the quarter-finals of an unrestricted Sam Maguire Cup ?

As it stands Clare & Tipperary in Munster and Sligo & Leitrim in Connacht have a better chance of qualifying for the Sam Maguire via a provincial final than a Leinster or Ulster Division 3 team simply because they can qualify by winning just 2 matches in their province.

[BrendanAntrim]

"No matter how you dress it up the Tailteann Cup will always be a 2nd tier competition."

It is literally a second tier competition...it was established to be so.

[The Boy Wonder]

"No matter how you dress it up the Tailteann Cup will always be a 2nd tier competition."

It is literally a second tier competition...it was established to be so.

I was responding to previous posts re. seeming lack of interest in Tailteann Cup and it's promotion.

But thank you Brendan for pointing this out 

[Captain Scarlet]

Lads where the fook can I buy a ticket?
I've googled and it brings me to the main GAA page with the Provincials but no Tailteann.

Even Kildare website has no link...

[Rossfan]

Welcome to GAA promotion and marketing....


Update

https://am.ticketmaster.com/gaa/buy/kildaretc3mp

[Blowitupref]

First round games

Saturday 10th May

Group 1
St Conleth's Park, 17:00 Kildare v Leitrim

Group 2

O'Connor Park, 13:30 Offaly v Wicklow
O'Moore Park, 15:00 Laois v Waterford

Group 3
Mick Neville Park, 13:00 Limerick v London

Group 4
Wexford Park, 18:30 Wexford v Longford

Sunday May 11th

Group 1

Tubbercurry, Sligo 13:30 Sligo v Tipperary

Group 3

Cusack Park, 14:00 Westmeath v Antrim live on GAA+

Group 4

Brewster Park, 14:00 Fermanagh v Carlow

Round 2 games confirmed today.

Saturday May 17th

Tipperary v Kildare - Clonmel 4pm
Waterford v Offaly -  Walsh Park 1:30pm
Wicklow v Laois - Aughrim 6pm
Antrim v Limerick - Corrigan Park 4:30pm

Sunday May 18th

Leitrim v Sligo - Pairc Sean MacDiarmada 2pm live on GAA+
London v Westmeath - Ruislip 2pm
Carlow v Wexford - Cullen Park  2:30pm
Longford v Fermanagh - Pearse Park  3pm

[Fogarty]

Saturday May 17th

Wicklow v Laois - Aughrim 6pm

I predict Laois will start crying again about 1986.

[ck]

Lads where the fook can I buy a ticket?
I've googled and it brings me to the main GAA page with the Provincials but no Tailteann.

Even Kildare website has no link...

Would I be right in saying Kildare are embarrassed to be in Tailteann Cup?
Considering their player base and resources its a pretty poor position to be in.

[Rossfan]

Weren't they in it last year too?
A County with 3 Provincials in 90 years.

I'd say more recent Sam winners Meath and Down must have been pretty embarrassed too but they knuckled down and won it.

[mup]

Would I be right in saying Kildare are embarrassed to be in Tailteann Cup?
Considering their player base and resources its a pretty poor position to be in.
[/quote]

Maybe some are embarrassed but I certainly don't feel that way. It's our level. As someone alluded to up above we have 3 Leinster's in 90 years. Last AI title was 1928. So I'm not sure what you mean by player base and resources.

There are delusion of grandeur within Kildare GAA.

[snoopdog]

Would I be right in saying Kildare are embarrassed to be in Tailteann Cup?
Considering their player base and resources its a pretty poor position to be in.

Maybe some are embarrassed but I certainly don't feel that way. It's our level. As someone alluded to up above we have 3 Leinster's in 90 years. Last AI title was 1928. So I'm not sure what you mean by player base and resources.

There are delusion of grandeur within Kildare GAA.
[/quote]
Why would they be embarrassed. Thry haven't won an all Ireland in 100 years.  Meath and Down took to the competition and they've a much bigger history. As do Offaly.

[mup]

Would I be right in saying Kildare are embarrassed to be in Tailteann Cup?
Considering their player base and resources its a pretty poor position to be in.

Maybe some are embarrassed but I certainly don't feel that way. It's our level. As someone alluded to up above we have 3 Leinster's in 90 years. Last AI title was 1928. So I'm not sure what you mean by player base and resources.

There are delusion of grandeur within Kildare GAA.

Why would they be embarrassed. Thry haven't won an all Ireland in 100 years.  Meath and Down took to the competition and they've a much bigger history. As do Offaly.

[/quote]

Ehh thats what I just wrote.

[FermGael]

Fair play to the Gaa.
Savage launch .
And first games on the same day as the Ulster final , just genius .

And brilliant match previews in today's Irish news .

[Blowitupref]

Results

Offaly 2-13 Wicklow 0-11
Laois 0-28 Waterford 1-16
Limerick 0-25 London 1-15
Kildare 0-36 Leitrim 0-11
Wexford: 2-24  Longford: 1-18

[Bogman]

Lads where the fook can I buy a ticket?
I've googled and it brings me to the main GAA page with the Provincials but no Tailteann.

Even Kildare website has no link...

Would I be right in saying Kildare are embarrassed to be in Tailteann Cup?
Considering their player base and resources its a pretty poor position to be in.

Kildare beat Carlow in Joe McDonagh hurling today. A huge result for them. Maybe they are a hurling county now.