All-Ireland Series Sam Maguire 2026

[Aaron Boone]

Repeat of the League final. Kerry will never close that gap to Donegal. Yerra.

[Blowitupref]

Repeat of the 2025 All-Ireland final the stand out tie.


Dublin v Louth
Cork v Meath
Monaghan v Mayo
Westmeath v Cavan
Kerry v Donegal
Galway v Kildare
Armagh v  Derry
Roscommon v Tyrone

[David McKeown]

Happy enough with that draw. Some high quality matches there.

[Dunneroyal]

Repeat of the League final. Kerry will never close that gap to Donegal. Yerra.
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Also a repeat of division 2 final. Long trip to cork ahead again

[Dunneroyal]

I'm getting sick of playing cork at this stage.

[An Watcher]

Nice to see kerry getting challenged early in the championship for once

[SouthDublinBro]

The issue here is that it seems that the losing teams in this first round won't be eliminated, they just go into a loser's bracket. It's an advantage to get drawn against a stronger county at this stage so you will likely avoid playing that team again until the later knockout rounds.

[toby47]

The issue here is that it seems that the losing teams in this first round won't be eliminated, they just go into a loser's bracket. It's an advantage to get drawn against a stronger county at this stage so you will likely avoid playing that team again until the later knockout rounds.

Yeah the losers play another loser to get back in.

Danger is the likes of Armagh vs Derry loser getting Kerry v Donegal loser and a decent team getting an early summer.

[blanketattack]

How are Mayo such strong favourites v Monaghan?

[Armagh18]

Good draw for Kerry and Donegal, loser likely to get a handy game against another loser and they then can't meet again until the final.

[Armagh18]

How are Mayo such strong favourites v Monaghan?

According to who? With home advantage and how bad Mayo looked against Roscommon I'd be typing Monaghan.

[An Watcher]

Are ye for real?  Get beat here and you're not out?

[p3427977]

Are ye for real?  Get beat here and you're not out?

No you've another game after before you're out.

[Ronnie]

Good draw for Kerry and Donegal, loser likely to get a handy game against another loser and they then can't meet again until the final.

Surely that's not right??

[David McKeown]

Good draw for Kerry and Donegal, loser likely to get a handy game against another loser and they then can't meet again until the final.

Surely that's not right??

I thought it was only avoidance of repeat pairings until the quarter finals