Irish GAA

All Ireland victory on the agenda once more

Although the weather isn’t reflecting the fact that it is summer, June should see the first issues in the 2006 All-Ireland championships decided when defending Hurling champions Cork take on either Waterford or Tipperary in the Munster final.
Last year’s defeated finalists Galway will be waiting to play their first game since the defeat by the Rebel county last September on June 17.
2005 Football champions Tyrone will need to use the ‘back-door’ system of the qualifiers after being easily defeated by Derry in Omagh and will now need to go into the ‘round robin’ sequence of games to see if they can emulate their success last year.
Runners-up in last year’s final Kerry face a semi-final trip to Killarney to face Tipperary after overcoming Waterford in the quarter-finals.
At this point in the season, keeping track on how your team are doing can be a tricky business. So let The Harp take away the strain. Below we’ve printed all the fixtures for both Football and Hurling so you can keep up-to-date in what has happened so far, and how the fixtures are likely to pan out.
You can read the latest GAA news in next month’s issue of The Harp.