Football qualifier between Leitrim and Roscommon to be all-ticket

SATURDAY’S Bank of Ireland football qualifier between Leitrim and Roscommon in Carrick-on-Shannon will be all-ticket.

Tickets are available from the respective county boards or from the Connacht Council offices in Ballyhaunis (by credit card), on 094/9630335.

In Clones, the Gerry Arthurs stand will also be all-ticket for the Saturday evening clash of Monaghan and Meath. Entry to the rest of the ground will be by cash at the turnstiles.

Cash will be taken at the stiles at all the other qualifier games.

Meanwhile, Dublin’s game with Derry in Clones on Saturday week will be all-ticket. Tickets will be available through the county boards next week, with a limited allocation also available from the GAA website (www.gaa.ie), from next Monday.

RTÉ will broadcast the All-Ireland SFC qualifier between Monaghan and Meath on The Saturday Game Live from 4pm on Network 2.

The Sunday Game Live will feature the northwestern derby meeting of Donegal and Sligo in the qualifiers at 2pm, followed at 4.30pm by the Ulster SFC semi-final between Fermanagh and Down.

Michael Monaghan from Kildare will be in charge of that game, while the following referees have been

appointed for the weekend qualifiers: M Daly (Mayo), Carlow v Tipperary; B Gorman (Armagh), Leitrim v Roscommon; J Bannon (Longford), Armagh v Antrim; D Joyce (Galway), Offaly v Clare; M Collins (Cork), Monaghan v Meath; B White (Wexford), Sligo v Donegal.

Meath’s Donal Curtis and Seamus O’Hanlon of Louth have both received 12-week suspensions following their dismissal in the respective games against Westmeath and Dublin in Croke Park on June 1.