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ROUND 1 Fermanagh v Longford Laois v Wicklow Clare v Offaly Carlow v Antrim Wexford v Limerick Down v Leitrim Sligo v Tipperary Waterford v London Down, Wexford, Offaly and Laois will be among the favourites. Sligo and Clare won't be far off either. Clare enter the Tailteann for the first time. The top 7 Division 4 counties can be confident of making their mark. 15 counties have strong prospects for making the semi finals in Croke Park. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9717 - 06/05/2026 15:34:09 2671325 Link
Replying To legendzxix: "ROUND 1 Fermanagh v Longford Laois v Wicklow Clare v Offaly Carlow v Antrim Wexford v Limerick Down v Leitrim Sligo v Tipperary Waterford v London Down, Wexford, Offaly and Laois will be among the favourites. Sligo and Clare won't be far off either. Clare enter the Tailteann for the first time. The top 7 Division 4 counties can be confident of making their mark. 15 counties have strong prospects for making the semi finals in Croke Park." Fermanagh v Longford - Fermanagh Laois v Wicklow - Wicklow Clare v Offaly - Clare Carlow v Antrim - Carlow Wexford v Limerick - Wexford Down v Leitrim - Down Sligo v Tipperary - Sligo Waterford v London - London tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1803 - 06/05/2026 15:53:47 2671331 Link
Leitrim are surely favourites for this? Not many teams have the quality we have as we proved against Galway. Gantric (Leitrim) - Posts: 52 - 06/05/2026 16:05:31 2671336 Link
Replying To tirawleybaron: "Fermanagh v Longford - Fermanagh Laois v Wicklow - Wicklow Clare v Offaly - Clare Carlow v Antrim - Carlow Wexford v Limerick - Wexford Down v Leitrim - Down Sligo v Tipperary - Sligo Waterford v London - London" Only change I'd make here is I see Antrim beating Carlow mickosarmy (Wicklow) - Posts: 2 - 06/05/2026 17:10:24 2671342 Link
Replying To Gantric: "Leitrim are surely favourites for this? Not many teams have the quality we have as we proved against Galway." Take a holiday lad. Leitrim_12 (Leitrim) - Posts: 97 - 06/05/2026 23:05:38 2671386 Link
Replying To legendzxix: "ROUND 1 Fermanagh v Longford Laois v Wicklow Clare v Offaly Carlow v Antrim Wexford v Limerick Down v Leitrim Sligo v Tipperary Waterford v London Down, Wexford, Offaly and Laois will be among the favourites. Sligo and Clare won't be far off either. Clare enter the Tailteann for the first time. The top 7 Division 4 counties can be confident of making their mark. 15 counties have strong prospects for making the semi finals in Croke Park." Longford. Wicklow. Clare. Antrim. Limerick. Down. Sligo. Waterford. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1041 - 07/05/2026 18:38:42 2671498 Link
How many minutes coverage will the Tailteann Cup get on Sunday Game, il go with a whole 2.40 minutes with some awful background music, followed by some general comments from pundits who didn't see any of the games. While majority of show focuses on two finals that were already shown live earlier that day. Sound familiar?? macca999 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 1210 - 08/05/2026 16:36:02 2671671 Link
Replying To legendzxix: "ROUND 1 Fermanagh v Longford Laois v Wicklow Clare v Offaly Carlow v Antrim Wexford v Limerick Down v Leitrim Sligo v Tipperary Waterford v London Down, Wexford, Offaly and Laois will be among the favourites. Sligo and Clare won't be far off either. Clare enter the Tailteann for the first time. The top 7 Division 4 counties can be confident of making their mark. 15 counties have strong prospects for making the semi finals in Croke Park." Love how you don't mention Wicklow. We ran the Dubs very close. In fact had the usually reliable Mark Jackson scored any of his 6 two pointer attempts we'd have not have lost that game. We were in the Semi Final last year, beat a good Westmeath side, and were 8 up in the Semi Final v Limerick in Croke Park before capitulating. Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1157 - 08/05/2026 18:11:05 2671685 Link
Replying To macca999: "How many minutes coverage will the Tailteann Cup get on Sunday Game, il go with a whole 2.40 minutes with some awful background music, followed by some general comments from pundits who didn't see any of the games. While majority of show focuses on two finals that were already shown live earlier that day. Sound familiar??" I think that the rights for the Tailteann should be given to TG4. Both the live games and highlights. The only caveat should be that there should be a bi lingual element to the analysis in both productions. It would help anyway. The reality is that there are more than enough McCarthy and Maguire games to fill the rte schedule and the sunday game. Allow TG4 cover tailteann and Joe McDonagh games. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 362 - 08/05/2026 19:44:45 2671693 Link
Replying To macca999: "How many minutes coverage will the Tailteann Cup get on Sunday Game, il go with a whole 2.40 minutes with some awful background music, followed by some general comments from pundits who didn't see any of the games. While majority of show focuses on two finals that were already shown live earlier that day. Sound familiar??" Sounds about right Macca. Unfortunately. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19461 - 08/05/2026 21:54:43 2671709 Link
Replying To macca999: "How many minutes coverage will the Tailteann Cup get on Sunday Game, il go with a whole 2.40 minutes with some awful background music, followed by some general comments from pundits who didn't see any of the games. While majority of show focuses on two finals that were already shown live earlier that day. Sound familiar??" It l get more time than joe mcdonagh ,while they show highlights of d3 football ,they won't go past 1b in hurling ,t-cup gets enough Timmy86 (Sligo) - Posts: 366 - 08/05/2026 23:13:07 2671720 Link
Replying To Wicklowman: "Love how you don't mention Wicklow. We ran the Dubs very close. In fact had the usually reliable Mark Jackson scored any of his 6 two pointer attempts we'd have not have lost that game. We were in the Semi Final last year, beat a good Westmeath side, and were 8 up in the Semi Final v Limerick in Croke Park before capitulating." I've commented on Wicklow before. As I say, top 7 from Division 4 can make a mark. Wicklow having missed on promotion twice and lost in last year's Tailteann semi finals are just coming up short of success. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9717 - 09/05/2026 00:12:03 2671728 Link
Replying To Tadhg2020: "I think that the rights for the Tailteann should be given to TG4. Both the live games and highlights. The only caveat should be that there should be a bi lingual element to the analysis in both productions. It would help anyway. The reality is that there are more than enough McCarthy and Maguire games to fill the rte schedule and the sunday game. Allow TG4 cover tailteann and Joe McDonagh games." No problem with who covers games, but half London team are London born, what does your caveat mean to them, and their fans? Are we not trying to promote our games? Expertinall (UK) - Posts: 72 - 09/05/2026 00:20:02 2671731 Link
Replying To Tadhg2020: "I think that the rights for the Tailteann should be given to TG4. Both the live games and highlights. The only caveat should be that there should be a bi lingual element to the analysis in both productions. It would help anyway. The reality is that there are more than enough McCarthy and Maguire games to fill the rte schedule and the sunday game. Allow TG4 cover tailteann and Joe McDonagh games." I'd guess it might be a case of not so much that Tailteann Cup right should be "given" to TG4, as TG4 for their own reasons chose not to bid for them. And that guess is based on the arrangement re. the McDonagh Cup. Clubber show matches from the Joe McDonagh and Christy Ring Cups. That means the rights were available all right, but Clubber bought them rather than TG4 doing so. Don't know if TG4 even bid for them. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3580 - 09/05/2026 09:37:43 2671748 Link
Replying To Expertinall: "No problem with who covers games, but half London team are London born, what does your caveat mean to them, and their fans? Are we not trying to promote our games?" Obviously can't actually speak for the other poster, but in fairness, I think he meant it in the opposite way to how you're interpreting it. Insisting that TG4 provide bilingual coverage would mean there'd be coverage in English as well as Irish, so that non-Irish speakers (like those who were born and grew up in London) would be able to understand at least some of it. No bilingual stipulation would mean all the coverage would be in Irish, and that'd be no use at all to the London-born crew or anybody else who doesn't have more than just a cúpla focail. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3580 - 09/05/2026 10:39:54 2671753 Link
Replying To Tadhg2020: "I think that the rights for the Tailteann should be given to TG4. Both the live games and highlights. The only caveat should be that there should be a bi lingual element to the analysis in both productions. It would help anyway. The reality is that there are more than enough McCarthy and Maguire games to fill the rte schedule and the sunday game. Allow TG4 cover tailteann and Joe McDonagh games." It isn't a case of allowing, it is a case of whether TG4 think it is worth bidding for and perhaps what the GAA would ask for the rights wouldn't be financially beneficial to them anyway. How many would look at a tailteann cup game...20,000 maybe? Won't sell much advertising on that. ohwow (Leitrim) - Posts: 178 - 09/05/2026 11:39:11 2671759 Link
Replying To Expertinall: "No problem with who covers games, but half London team are London born, what does your caveat mean to them, and their fans? Are we not trying to promote our games?" I said bi lingual as in both languages. I dont know why you think I said different. I am not a fluent Irish speaker and definitely not able to understand native speakers conversing together. The Welsh language channel do a great job of bi lingual coverage of pro rugby. The main commentator speaks in Welsh and the co commentator( ex player normally) gives his thoughts in English. The pre/ halftime/post game analysis has one English speaker and one Welsh speaker also. I think that honours the native language mandate while also expanding the audience. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 362 - 09/05/2026 13:19:20 2671772 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "I'd guess it might be a case of not so much that Tailteann Cup right should be "given" to TG4, as TG4 for their own reasons chose not to bid for them. And that guess is based on the arrangement re. the McDonagh Cup. Clubber show matches from the Joe McDonagh and Christy Ring Cups. That means the rights were available all right, but Clubber bought them rather than TG4 doing so. Don't know if TG4 even bid for them." Ok, that is most likely true but in the interest of games promotion RTE/TG4 should make at least one game available free to air per round from both competitions. Failing that GAA+ should (fta) as a promotional vehicle both of the service and the competitions themselves. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 362 - 09/05/2026 13:22:12 2671773 Link