Extra-time will be played in Sunday's football championship games in Ulster and Leinster should they finish level after normal time. It follows the decision to dispense with replays up to the provincial semi-final stage. If the games between Fermanagh and Down and Carlow and Louth finish level, then two 10-minute periods of extra-time will be played. If the sides are still level after that, a further five minutes each way of extra-time will be played and only after that will a replay be set. Louth were famously involved in a three-game saga with Wicklow in 2007, but the new ruling means they won't have to worry about the prospect of another trilogy of first round games unfolding. The new ruling also rules out money-spinning replays involving the likes of Dublin and Meath, Armagh and Tyrone (both football) and Tipperary and Cork (hurling) this year. Tweet

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