All-Ireland SFC quarter-final draw: Dublin to meet Tyrone, Galway face Meath

Dublin will meet Tyrone in next weekend’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals. After overcoming Cork last weekend, Dublin’s reward is a clash with the Group 1 winners. Twenty years after Owen Mulligan’s iconic goal in the All-Ireland quarter-final at HQ, the sides will meet again. Stephen Cluxton and Dessie Farrell were involved in that 2005 affair, which Tyrone won in a replay.

Ulster champions Donegal will meet Monaghan in a repeat of the Ulster championship semi-final. That fixture finished in a 0-21 to 0-23 victory for Donegal.

Galway will take on Meath in an attractive showdown. The Connacht champions will be sweating on the fitness of Shane Walsh after he was taken off against Down on Sunday. Pádraic Joyce’s outfit face a repeat of the 2001 All-Ireland final. Galway won that game as Joyce kicked ten points.

Leinster finalists Meath have already stunned Dublin and Kerry this year.

It was already certain that Kerry will face Armagh in a repeat of last year’s All-Ireland semi-final, a tie Armagh won after extra-time. The 2024 All-Ireland champions have already played Galway, Dublin and Donegal.

The fixtures will be confirmed at 2.30pm with two games to be played on Saturday and two on Sunday. They will all take place at Croke Park.

Meanwhile, GAA President Jarlath Burns has told RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland that the second year of his presidency is about the review of the association’s amateur status. An extensive survey was recently launched while an Amateur Status Review Committee, headed by Professor David Hassan, has been in operation since last year.

“I remember when I played we would have said there is too much training and not enough games,” said Burns when asked about current fixture congestion.

“You might get seven games in the league and only one game in the championship. There is always that maybe tipping point beyond which you say, is it too much?

“We mention amateur status, we mention the Football Review Committee the first year of my presidency, this year the focus is on the amateur status now that you mention it. We are looking at all aspects of what it means to be an amateur player, a volunteer player in the 21st century. The last time we did this was about 30 years ago.”

The survey has already been launched and will be live until July 25. Questions relate to the possibility of payments for inter-county managers, the split season, closed-season training guidelines and overseas training camps.

“All around us is corporate and commercial in every other sport. What we are asking people to do now, there is a survey. We are doing a major consultation,” he continued.

“Like the Football Review, we will use those results to frame what it is going to mean for the amateur status going forward. Everything is going to be in the mix there.”

All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals

Armagh v Kerry

Tyrone v Dublin

Meath v Galway

Monaghan v Donegal

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