Draw for Round 2A (Round 1 winners) and Round 2B (Round 1 losers) takes place on Radio 1 at 8:30am on Tuesday morning. No repeat provincial final pairings. First drawn gets home advantage in each draw. Winners of 2A go to QF. Round 2B is knockout. June 13th-14th. #gaa #speirgorm

Mayo manage to hold Monaghan off. Rory Beggan, what a driving force for Monaghan. No one will want to get them in draw on Tuesday. #gaa #speirgorm Maith sibh Maigh Eo 👏

Monaghan 0-09 Mayo 1-17, belter of a two pointer from Ryan O’ Donoghue for Mayo just before the hooter. HT #gaa #speirgorm

Louth have beaten Dublin! Maith sibh An Lú! #gaa #speirgorm All eyes on Clones now! Mayo lead Monaghan 0-04 to 0-00. 8minutes gone.

Goal for Louth, they lead Dublin by three with two minutes to go! #gaa #speirgorm

Westmeath win it comfortably in the end. Cavan join Kildare, Kerry, Meath & Roscommon (so far) in the ‘Losers’ draw. #gaa #speirgorm

Westmeath get a goal and are two points up with three minutes left.

Cavan are six points up at HT in extra time. Don’t think anyone saw this in the tea leaves! #gaa

Going to extra time. #gaa #speirgorm

Cavan have just levelled it with a goal! 8 minutes left! #gaa

Cavan are making a bit of a comeback in Cusack Park, Mullingar. Westmeath are leading my 3 points at the moment. #gaa

3 out of 4 Senior Football Championship games behind a paywall this weekend 🫠 #gaa

Cannot wait to read this standalone book, set in Mayo, due for release in July! If you haven’t read the @janecasey.bsky.social ‘s Maeve Kerrigan series, you’ve it all to look forward to! #irishauthor #bíagléamh #speirgorm

Shane McGrath and Rory O'Neill join Cathal Mullaney for the #RTEGAA Podcast 📉More to fall for Cats 😃Dubs and Offaly on the rise 🟢🔴Cork and Limerick on collision course

We provisionally have a new record high temperature for May in Ireland with two stations at Clonmel and Killarney reporting 28.8c beating the previous record of 28.4c. We could see still see higher temperatures over the next hour.

🔵 Sean Kyne (FG) wins the Galway West byeleciton on the 11th count. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Up to 25c at Phoenix Park in Dublin but just 14c at Mace Head on West coast. The sunshine has reached all areas this afternoon. Tomorrow will be warmer and we could get close to the all time May record of 28.4c

Such a recount is the only refuge of hope for Thomas, who is losing out to Kyne by a margin of 4:1 - maybe higher - on Ogbu’s transfers, giving the FG man a lead of thousands on the upcoming final count

Supporters of Noel Thomas are discussing the thought of a recount. The only plausible grounds for it would be the elimination of Mike Cubbard on the 7th count; he was only 12 behind FF at the time. It’s plausible - though in truth, unlikely - that the order of elimination could change the outcome.

Into the 11th and final count in Galway West; Helen Ogbu eliminated. Her 12,960 votes will determine the winner between Noel Thomas and Sean Kyne; Thomas has a lead of 277 and is not expected to keep it. Analysis on @virginmedianews.bsky.social in a mo.

🔵 3pm and seems safe at this juncture to call it: Sean Kyne to win the Galway West by-election.

1,280 votes is the lead for Noel Thomas (II) over Sean Kyne (FG). There will eventually be about 10,000 votes in the Labour and SocDems piles, plus 4,668 from FF. You’d expect Kyne to bridge that gap bit.ly/GalwayWest26

Word on the ground is that Thomas will extend his lead only by about 300

Cluichí ar siúil inniu! #gaa #speirgorm #hoganstand

🗳️🚨 Daniel Ennis wins the Dublin Central by-election @virginmedianews.bsky.social docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

One down, one to go. 🔵 Dublin Central’s final result bit.ly/DublinCentra... 🟣 Galway West’s count resuming later this morning bit.ly/GalwayWest26

Time for Galway v Kildare!

Maith sibh Corcaigh 👏 #gaa #speirgorm

Cork v Meath is another cracker of a contest so far. Stuck behind a paywall tho! Sacrilege! #gaa #speirgorm

The first count result you've been waiting for... without the wait. Here's the state of play in Dublin Central after the first count, the headline figure being Daniel Ennis and his 555 vote advantage over Janice Boylan and Janet Horner being 90 votes ahead of Gerard Hutch

Jim McGuinness could be facing some heat after this. Be interesting to see what happens in the second half. The officials have a lot to do to rein in the tension. Hopefully, we will get back to the football in the second half.

The Siege of Killarney, Radio One describing it as ‘spicy’ ‘aggravated’ and none of them commentators can decipher where it all began! #speirgorm #gaa

A lot will be learned from today’s matches! #gaa #speirgorm Kildare haven’t beaten Galway in league or championship in 40+ years. Where are Meath, Cork, Donegal & Galway really at? Will Kildare’s injury comebacks come right just in time?

Big day for sport, looking forward to Kerry v Donegal at 3 pm

Based on 29% tally I think Kyne will take #GalW, and it'll be Ogbu's transfers in final count that moves it away from Thomas. II don't look transfer friendly.

🗳️ By-election tallies LIVE! 🚨 🔵 Dublin Central bit.ly/DublinCentral26 🟣 Galway West bit.ly/GalwayWest26 Updates here throughout the day(s)!

This is gas 😂 Cill Dara Abú! #gaa #spéirgorm

They do not belong in Gaelic Football. Super win for Kildare. Tommy Konstantine now smiling as Gaeilge. This was a great ad for the game. #GAA #SpéirGhorm

Very proud of our Kildare minors tonight! Shout out to Aodhan Bergin from our local club Grangenolvin!

What a match Super Kildare goal, Meath 2-pointer. But Meath got a free they shouldn’t have…..

Kildare pull it out of the fire again at the end of extra time and now it’s penalties (I think) 😵‍💫😂👀 #gaa #speirgorm

Wow, fair play, Killdare. They'd a poor 2nd half but found 1.1 in the last couple of minutes:- Meath 1.11 v Kildare 1.11 Extra time shortly. #GAA #SpéirGhorm

Kildare minors! What a heart stopping end to the march! A goal and a point in the last cúpla nóiméid to bring it to am breise! #gaa #spéirgorm #cilldaraabú

Cill Dara v An Mhí ag craoladh beo ar @tg4.bsky.social Cluiche Ceannais Laighean (mionúr) faoi lathair! #gaa #spéirgorm #cilldaraabú

Cá bhfuil an ghrian? #spéirghorm #speirgorm

#GAA #SpéirGhorm #speirgorm www.rte.ie/sport/footba...

Leister U20 Hurling final. Great talent on both teams. Galway great at interceptions, balls out of the rucks, scores from distance, interplay.. Kilkenny 2.11 v Galway 2.20 #SpéirGhorm Lots of names, including Vince Morgan, Cullen Killeen (Gal), and a Clifford (!, Kil).

The colder air is pulling away and warmer air is slowly moving towards us with over 20c for weekend and early next week. We still have more rain to come tonight and Thursday with some showers on Friday but the weekend and early next week look mainly dry. Up the Villa!