Last AIL qualifying place up for grabs

IT’S D-day for a number of clubs in the AIB All-Ireland League and none more so than Buccaneers, UL/Bohemians and Co Carlow in Division One, Dolphin and Old Crescent in Division Two and Waterpark in the third.

With Clontarf, Lansdowne and Ballymena sure of reaching the knock-out stages of the top echelon, interest centres very much now on which side joins them and where home advantage will lie when in the semi-finals in two weeks.

Clontarf are virtually assured of being at Castle Avenue with Buccaneers, providing the opposition defeat Ballymena in Athlone this afternoon.