September date confirmed for next year’s football decider

The 2018 All-Ireland senior football final date has been confirmed as September 2 with the hurling decider, as was explained after Special Congress last Saturday week, set to be staged on August 19.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner yesterday, GAA director of games administration and player welfare Feargal McGill said those Sundays had been pencilled in as the ultimate days of each competition next year.

As had been expected, the weekend of August 26 has been left vacant in the event Pope Francis attends the World Meeting of Families’ mass that Sunday.