The GAA Football Provincial Championships have been completed and now the battle to join the four winners in the GAA Football All-Ireland Quarter-finals gathers pace.

Three of the quarter-finalists (from the qualifiers) will be decided next Saturday while the fourth will be decided on the following weekend when the winners of Armagh-Tyrone take on Roscommon.

The thirteen counties still in All-Ireland contention are:
Ulster: Donegal, Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, Down.
Leinster: Dublin, Kildare, Wexford.
Munster: Kerry, Cork, Limerick.
Connacht: Mayo, Roscommon

Next Saturday's fixtures are as follows:
GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Qualifiers
Round 4: Derry v Kildare, 4.00pm; Cork v Down, 6.00pm. Both in Croke Park
Limerick v Wexford, Portlaoise, 7.00pm
Round 3: Tyrone v Armagh, Omagh, 7.00pm

CORK v DOWN
2011 Championship
Cork 5-17 Waterford 2-8; Kerry 1-15 Cork 1-12.
Armagh 1-15 Down 1-10; Down 1-13 Clare 1-12; Down 1-16 Leitrim 1-8; Down 3-13 Antrim 0-10.

A re-run of last year's All-Ireland final which Cork won by a point (0-16 to 0-15). That was only their second meeting in championship history, having first met in the 1994 All-Ireland semi-final when Down won by 1-13 to 0-11.

Last year's All-Ireland final provided a fascinating encounter where fortunes swayed from side to side before Cork finally edged home by a point. Down led by 0-7 to 0-2 after 27 minutes but Cork fought back and were three points clear after 68 minutes before Down pulled two back. Daniel Goulding (0-9) and Donncha O'Connor (0-5) were Cork's top scorers while Martin Clarke (0-3), Danny Hughes (0-3) and Paul McComiskey (0-3) were Down's leading marksmen.

DERRY v KILDARE
2011 Championship
Derry 1-18 Fermanagh 1-10; Derry 3-14 Armagh 1-11; Donegal 1-11 Derry 0-8.
Kildare 0-12 Wicklow 0-5; Kildare 0-16 Meath 0-10; Dublin 1-12 Kildare 1-11;
Kildare 3-16 Laois 0-10; Kildare 2-11 Meath 0-14.

They meet for the second year in the qualifiers, having clashed in Round 3 last year, where Kildare won by 2-17 to 1-9 in Celtic Park. They also met in the 2006 qualifiers when Derry won by 1-17 to 0-10 in a Round 2 clash in Celtic Park.

Kildare will be having their 6th championship outing of the season and are bidding to reach the All-Ireland quarter-finals for a fourth successive year. So far, Kildare have played all Leinster opposition, three at provincial level,followed by Laois and Meath in the qualifiers.
Derry, whose Ulster championship bid ended last Sunday with a defeat by Donegal in the final, are bidding to reach the All-Ireland quarter-final for the first time since 2007.

LIMERICK v WEXFORD
2011 Championship
Wexford 2-16 Offaly 0-8; Wexford 1-24 Westmeath 0-15; Wexford 4-12 Carlow
0-10; Dublin 2-12 Wexford 1-12. Kerry 1-26 Limerick 3-9; Limerick 3-13 Offaly 0-15; Limerick 0-14 Waterford 0-9.
They met in the Allianz Football League (Division 3) last April when Limerick won by 2-12 to 0-14 in Newcastlewest. Goals by Ger Collins and Seanie Buckley gave Limerick the edge in a game where Wexford had to play with 14 men for 45 minutes after midfielder, Daithi Waters was sent off on a second yellow card.

TYRONE v ARMAGH
2011 Championship
Tyrone 1-13 Monaghan 1-11; Donegal 2-6 Tyrone 0-9; Tyrone 1-17 Longford 0-15.
Armagh 1-15 Down 1-10; Derry 3-14 Armagh 1-11; Armagh 0-19 Wicklow 2-13
(After extra-time); Armagh 2-9 Wicklow 0-10 (Replay)

The two counties who shared between them all the Ulster titles in the 1999- 2010 era resume rivalry in the qualifiers with the winners advancing to a fourth round clash with Roscommon on Saturday week.

Tyrone v Armagh provided several outstanding battles throughout the last decade and are now poised to deliver another fascinating contest as they attempt to keep their All-Ireland ambitions alive. Tyrone won the last two championship clashes in 2009 and 2005, although Armagh also won once in 2005 while there was also a draw between them in a season where they met three times.

Last Five Championship Clashes
2009 - Tyrone 2-10 Armagh 1-10 (Ulster quarter-final)
2005 - Tyrone 1-13 Armagh 1-12 (All-Ireland semi-final)
2005 - Armagh 0-13 Tyrone 0-11 (Ulster final replay)
2005 - Armagh 2-8 Tyrone 0-14 (Ulster final)
2003 - Tyrone 0-12 Armagh 0-9 (All-Ireland final)

GAA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 2011 - FIXTURES & RESULTS
CONNACHT
Quarter-finals
May 1: Roscommon 3-21 New York 1-11, Gaelic Park
May 22: Leitrim 1-10 Sligo 0-10 Markievicz Park.
May 29: Mayo 0-19 London 2-10, Ruislip (After extra-time)
Semi-finals
June 12: Roscommon 2-12 Leitrim 0-6, Carrick-on-Shannon.
June 26: Mayo 1-12 Galway 1-6, Castlebar.
Final
July 17: Mayo 0-13 Roscommon 0-11, Dr. Hyde Park.

LEINSTER
First round
May 22: Kildare 0-12 Wicklow 0-5; Laois 0-10 Longford 0-9 (Both in Portlaoise).
May 28: Wexford 2-16 Offaly 0-8, Tullamore.
Quarter finals
June 5: Kildare 0-16 Meath 0-10; Dublin 1-16 Laois 0-11 (Both in Croke Park)
June 11: Wexford 1-24 Westmeath 0-15, Wexford Park.
June 12: Carlow 0-14 Louth 0-13, Portlaoise.
Semi-finals
June 26: Wexford 4-12 Carlow 0-10; Dublin 1-12 Kildare 1-11 (Both in Croke Park).
Final
July 10: Dublin 2-12 Wexford 1-12, Croke Park.

MUNSTER
Quarter-finals
May 22: Kerry 2-16 Tipperary 0-11, Killarney; Cork 1-23 Clare 0-11, Páirc Uí
Chaoimh.
Semi-finals
June 4: Kerry 1-26 Limerick 3-9, Gaelic Grounds.
June 5: Cork 5-17 Waterford 2-8, Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Final
Kerry 1-15 Cork 1-12, Killarney.

ULSTER
First Round
May 15: Donegal 1-10 Antrim 0-7, Ballybofey
Quarter-finals
May 22: Derry 1-18 Fermanagh 1-10, Celtic Park.
May 28: Armagh 1-15 Down 1-10, Athletic Grounds
June 5: Tyrone 1-13 Monaghan 1-11, Omagh.
June 12: Donegal 2-14 Cavan 1-8, Kingspan Breffni Park.
Semi-finals
June 19: Derry 3-14 Armagh 1-11, Clones.
June 26: Donegal 2-6 Tyrone 0-9 Clones.
Final
July 17: Donegal 1-11 Derry 0-8, Clones

ALL-IRELAND SF QUALIFIERS
June 25: Round 1: Down 1-13 Clare 1-12, Ennis; Laois 2-16 Tipperary 0-11, Portlaoise; Antrim 0-16 Westmeath 1-7, Casement Park; Meath 5-8 Louth 2-8, Navan; London 0-15 Fermanagh 0-9, Ruislip; Longford 2-16 Cavan 0-11, Kingspan Breffni Park; Wicklow 1-18 Sligo 0-16, Aughrim; Offaly 1-18 Monaghan 1-10, Tullamore.
July 9: Round 2: Limerick 3-13 Offaly 0-15 Gaelic Grounds; Down 1-16 Leitrim 1-8, Newry; Kildare 3-16 Laois 0-10, Portlaoise; Tyrone 1-17 Longford 0-15, Pearse Park; Armagh 0-19 Wicklow 2-13 (After extra-time), Morgan Athletic Grounds; Meath 0-11 Galway 0-10, Navan. Antrim 1-13 Carlow 2-9, Casement Park; Waterford.1-17 London 0-13, Ruislip.
July 16: Round 2 Replay: Armagh 2-9 Wicklow 0-10, Aughrim; Round 3: Kildare 2-11 Meath 0-14, Navan; Limerick 0-14 Waterford 0-9, Gaelic Grounds; Down 3-13 Antrim 0-10, Casement Park.
July 23: Round 3: Tyrone v Armagh; Round 4: Limerick v Wexford; Kildare v Derry; Down v Cork.
July 30/31: Round 4: Tyrone/Armagh v Roscommon.

ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
Quarter-finals
July 30/31; August 1 Three games: (Provincial winners v Round 4 qualifier winners)
August 6/7: One game.
Semi-finals
(Provincial winners or teams that beat them in quarter-finals)
August 21: Connacht v Munster, Croke Park.
August 28: Leinster v Ulster, Croke Park
Final
September 18, Croke Park. Tweet

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