Kildare and Offaly clash the sole televised qualifier

ALL eight qualifier games in the first round of the Bank of Ireland football championship will be played next Saturday, with the Kildare/Offaly tie in Newbridge — seen as the main attraction — timed for 2.30.

It will also be the only game to be covered live on television. The other seven rounds will start at 4.30pm.

In Mick O'Dwyer's last year with Kildare, they were taken to two games by Offaly in the Leinster semi-final before emerging victorious by a point in the replay. Subsequently, they went under by two points to Dublin in the final.