Football, hurling draws set for Sunday

THE DRAWS for the Bank of Ireland football and Guinness hurling provincial championships for 2005 will be televised on RTÉ 2 on Sunday at 7.30pm.

The football championship draws will feature all four provinces. In the Connacht championship, there will be three preliminary games. Galway have been pre-drawn to play New York and Roscommon will play London in the preliminary rounds.

Two of the remaining three teams - Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo - will be drawn to play against each other in the third preliminary game with the remaining team receiving a bye to the provincial semi-finals. There will be an open draw to decide the pairings for the semi-finals.