SATURDAY 31 MAY
All-Ireland SFC Round 2
Group 2
Cork v Kerry, SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, 4.45pm
Roscommon v Meath, King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park, 6pm
Group 3
Down v Louth, Páirc Esler, 5.30pm
Group 1
Tyrone v Mayo, Healy Park, 7pm
Tailteann Cup Round 3
Group 3
Westmeath v Limerick, Laois Hire O'Moore Park, 2pm
Group 2
Wicklow v Waterford, Chadwick's Wexford Park, 6pm
Offaly v Laois, Cedral St Conleth's Park, 6pm
SUNDAY 1 JUNE
All-Ireland SFC Round 2
Group 1
Cavan v Donegal, Kingspan Breffni, 2pm
Group 4
Derry v Galway, Celtic Park, 2pm
Dublin v Armagh, Croke Park, 4pm
Group 3
Monaghan v Clare, Clones, 4pm
Tailteann Cup Round 3
Group 1
Leitrim v Tipperary, Cusack Park, 1.30pm
Kildare v Sligo, King & Moffat Dr Hyde Park, 2pm
Group 3
Antrim v London, Páirc Esler, 1.45pm
Group 4
Carlow v Longford, Glenisk O'Connor Park, 1.45pm
Fermanagh v Wexford, Croke Park, 1.45pm
ONLINE
Live blog on rte.ie/sport and the RTÉ News app.
TV
Live coverage of Dublin v Armagh on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on Sunday from 3.30pm. GAA+ will screen Cork-Kerry and Tyrone-Mayo live on Saturday and Derry-Galway on Sunday.
Highlights on The Saturday Game (9.40pm) and The Sunday Game (9.30pm) on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
RADIO
Live commentaries and updates on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 and Spórt an tSathairn, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.
WEATHER
Saturday: Rain will spread eastwards across the country through the morning and early afternoon. The rain will clear during the afternoon with sunshine and showers following for the rest of the day, some heavy in the northwest. Highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees with moderate to fresh southwest winds.
Sunday: Breezy with a mix of sunshine and showers. It will be cooler with highest temperatures of 13 to 17 degrees and moderate to fresh and gusty westerly winds.
Group 4: What's rare is wonderful in the group of death
We're talking about the wild summer of 2010 a lot these days.
Another Louth-Meath Leinster final. Mayo in the midst of an annus horribilis. Hell, even Kildare are going on a run (okay, so that's in hurling this time...)
And now Dublin and Armagh meet in the championship for the first time since the qualifiers that year, when both teams were in bumpy transitional periods but heading in opposite directions.
Kieran McGeeney took over as Armagh manager shortly after the last Bronze Age and remarkably has managed to avoid meeting Dublin in the championship in all that time.
Indeed, they've only played twice in the league in that period, with Armagh spending just three seasons in the top flight in that timespan, one of which was during Dublin's unexpected sojourn in Division 2.
Though they have had some fairly spicy challenge matches over the years, some of which they managed to keep out of the papers.
Both those league games, in 2022 and this year, ended in Armagh wins. Few enough managers have a 100% record in competitive games against Dublin in the modern era.
It's rare that the two most recent All-Ireland champions have such minimal competitive interaction with one another.
Partly this reflects the fact that Armagh struggled badly for the first half decade of his reign, famously registering just two Ulster SFC victories in eight years. Had McGeeney not enjoyed such status as a player, it's probably doubtful he'd have been given that leeway. Like Alex Ferguson, the All-Ireland winning Armagh manager is a poster boy for the rewards of patience.
Both sides at Croker this weekend have the safety cushion of an opening round win.
Dublin answered the obituarists with a rousing one-point win over Galway in Salthill, gaining some measure of revenge for their quarter-final elimination last year. Ciarán Kilkenny was a pumped-up ball of fury all afternoon, his attitude typified by his dispossession of Shane Walsh at one stage in the second half.
Whether Dublin can summon the same manic, snarling energy this weekend, coming in off the back of a victory rather than a loss, is an open question.
The big blow for Dessie Farrell is the absence of Con O'Callaghan, who hasn't recovered in time from the injury incurred in the second half in Salthill. Tom Lahiff, the surprise match-winner at the death against Galway, is elevated to the starting XV.
Inconsistency has become a feature of the Dublin team in their current iteration, though it should be said that their home form in the league was markedly better than their away record.
Teams: O'Callaghan ruled out for Dublin
Armagh laid waste to Derry in a devastating third quarter but proceeded to almost toss the game away in a shambolic closing stretch when the away side seemed to be bearing down on goal every other minute. McGeeney partly attributed this to them running the bench late and becoming somewhat disjointed as a result.
Rian O'Neill's return to the starting line-up was the biggest surprise last weekend, with observers assuming he'd be ushered in slowly, possibly with a cameo appearance initially. But he began the game, his first half point generating one of the loudest roars of the evening.
However, it was Oisín Conaty, Ross McQuillan, Andrew Murnin and Conor Turbitt - the latter a first half sub for the injured Oisín O'Neill - who impressed most and carried a lot of the scoring.
Ethan Rafferty, the prime archetype of the modern fly keeper, demonstrated his traditionalist bona fides in the position, making a string of second half saves.
Geezer, after complaining about the ditching of the current championship format last weekend, reckoned it would be an open game in Croke Park, especially "with the new rules not allowing you to defend."
The preceding game in Group 4 probably has more riding on it with both Derry and Galway needing a result after losses.
In Paddy Tally's first year, Derry have lost eight of nine competitive matches. The only exception was against Galway, where they managed to secure a draw after a second half surge.
Notwithstanding Tally's reputation as an Ulster defensive guru par excellence, Derry have conceded a truckful of goals in 2025 - 21 across nine games.
They could have a bundle themselves the last day, indicating the attacking side of things is functioning well enough, with Ethan Bradley and Brendan Rogers causing problems with runs from deep, while Paul Cassidy was potent around the arc.
Galway's highly-vaunted midfield had a sobering afternoon against the Dubs, with Peadar Ó Cofaigh Byrne - unheralded at county level still - ruling the skies.
Incidentally it was in the league game in Celtic Park where they last struggled to that extent. Derry dominated the midfield battle in the second half that evening, preventing clean catches and crowding around the breaks.
On paper, the westerners have extraordinary riches in attack with Salthill's Matthew Thompson, formerly of Galway United, joining the ensemble this year and increasingly looking the part.
Padraic Joyce hinted after the Dublin game that Damien Comer could be nearing a return soon though he's not included in the match-day squad this week, with Jack Glynn at corner-back the only change to the starting team, while the experienced Johnny Heaney is back among the subs after returning from injury.
Comer, who destroyed Derry in the 2022 All-Ireland semi-final, hasn't featured since picking up an injury in a challenge match prior to the Connacht final.
Derry, in addition to seeking their first competitive win of the year, are looking to break their championship duck against Galway, having lost all five matches, three of which were All-Ireland finals, in 1998, 2001 and '22.
Group 1: Can Mayo rouse themselves?
It's all getting very real in the group of near death. It was the presence of Cavan which was supposed to have precluded this from receiving the group of death moniker.
Then Raymond Galligan's side went and turned over a vulnerable Mayo in Castlebar, having trundled to a nine-point loss in the same fixture 12 months ago.
One could almost say they're close to bonus territory at this point though a group stage elimination - still highly possible - would leave a sour taste.
They host a Donegal team smarting from a first Ballybofey defeat in Jim McGuiness's two glorious tenures. Paddy McBrearty's late two-pointer looked to have put Donegal in the box-seat down the stretch but following the defeat, Neil McGee bluntly admitted afterwards that they were "not at it".
The result ended up continuing the trend of provincial champions struggling in the first round robin game, which was first evident after Kerry's 2023 loss to Mayo in Killarney and is especially prevalent this year.
It also forms part of rationale for the change in format next year, with Connacht secretary John Prenty among those calling for provincial champions to be given a greater reward.
Mayo, after a horrible month on a number of fronts, head for Omagh badly needing a result. Defeat won't formally end their hopes but faith has been ebbing away of late.
Kevin McStay having stepped back for medical reasons, Stephen Rochford returns to the manager's post, having occupied the position between 2016 and 2018.
Rochford is well-acquainted with the task of revitalising Mayo after sobering Connacht championship defeats, having taken them to the brink of an All-Ireland in 2016 and 2017 after losses to Galway earlier in the summer. Whether the current crop have the tools to do similar looks highly dubious.
Another damned Cork-Kerry game
Kerry were the sole provincial champion to win the last day, cantering home against Roscommon in Killarney.
The group phase has thrown up repeat pairings year on year and Cork-Kerry in Páirc Uí Chaoimh has a 'ho-hum, here we go again' feel to it.
Cork pushed Kerry all the way to extra-time in the Munster semi-final, wasteful shooting late on to blame for their loss.
In the time-honoured rhythm of this fixture, the moral victory the last day suggests they're due a pasting this time.
John Cleary identified their struggles in midfield against Meath as the root cause of their undoing, the dreadful conditions being cited as the reason for the pre-2025 looking scoreline.
Jack O'Connor insists Cork are an "underrated team" and anticipates another ferocious battle. Paudie Clifford returns to the starting line-up having missed out the last day with a muscle injury. Midfielder Diarmuid O'Connor, however, is ruled out, with Barry Dan O'Sullivan joining Joe O'Connor - match-winner last time out in Cork - in the middle.
In the group's other game, Roscommon host Meath in the Hyde. The Rossies won the battle for promotion in the end in Division 2 - the fifth straight time they've escaped the second tier at the first attempt. But it is Meath who are the more buoyant currently, the Leinster final notwithstanding.
Roscommon's form has arguably never recovered since they travelled to Navan unbeaten back in March and came away heavily beaten.
While they limped to promotion afterwards, Davy Burke's side have won just two from eight starting from then, one of which was in Ruislip. Both sides have huge prowess on two-pointers but Meath's midfield advantage looks marked.
In the Group of Life, Down meet their neighbours over the border Louth in a huge game in Páirc Esler. Louth won the February league encounter by a point - 2-17 to 0-22 - their consistent habit of scoring more goals than their opponents getting the job done. It was a win that ultimately kept them in the division at Down's expense.
Last year's Tailteann winners were impressively ruthless against Clare and have home home advantage on this occasion, however.
In the group's other game, Monaghan, hugely impressive right from the beginning of 2025, are heavy favourites against a Clare side who availed of the soft side of the Munster draw and looked out of their depth at this level the last day.
Tailteann final round
It's possibly a measure of the imbalance within the Tailteann that in two of the groups, there are two teams on four points and two on none. Meanwhile, in another of the groups, one team is already eliminated.
In Groups 1 and 3, Kildare-Sligo and Westmeath-Limerick are a straight battle for top spot. In Group 1, Steven Poacher's Leitrim, highly credible the last day against Sligo, face off against Tipperary in a clash for the preliminary quarter-final spot and to extend their season.
With the Westmeath-Limerick (both on four points) and the Antrim-London (both on none) games not impacting each other materially, they've dispensed with the simultaneous throw-in requirements for convenience sake.
A purely neutral location for Antrim-London being hard to come by - all the fields in the Isle of Man were booked out presumably - they've plonked the game in Newry.
Group 2 sees the most complications, following Laois's surprise loss away to Wicklow in Aughrim in Round 2.
Nonetheless, Offaly, Laois and Wicklow should all progress here provided Oisín McConville's side dispatch Waterford as expected in Wexford Park.
Divsion 3 champs Offaly, 100% in the group but who only had five points to spare in Waterford, face Justin McNulty's Laois in Newbridge.
If Waterford do upset Wicklow, it will be the latter who miss out due to their poor score difference.
In Group 4, the three qualifiers are already known, although the order is still to be determined.
Fermanagh-Wexford will precede the Dublin-Armagh game in Croke Park, though it's doubtful the Hill will have filled up at that point.
Should John Hegarty's Division 3 bound side win, they'll be in a good spot to finish top though Carlow could overhaul them at home to Longford.
The midlanders, over-achievers for much of the 2010s but plumbing new depths of irrelevance recently, are the earliest team eliminated from the Tailteann following their heavy defeat to Fermanagh.
Watch Dublin v Armagh in the All-Ireland Football Championship on Sunday from 3.30pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Follow a live blog on rte.ie/sport and the RTÉ News app and listen to Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1. Highlights on The Sunday Game at 9.30pm
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