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Pat Nolan

Dublin double bill at Croke Park on Sunday week for Galway and Roscommon ties

The Dublin footballers and hurlers will form a Croke Park double bill on Sunday week.

The hurlers will round out their Leinster round robin campaign against Galway (2pm) on May 28 having decided to move the fixture from Parnell Park, where they play the bulk of their home games.

The footballers, fresh from winning a 13th straight Leinster title last weekend, start their All-Ireland series in Group 3 with a tie against Roscommon (4pm), in what will be their first fixture against Division One opposition this year.

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Beaten Leinster finalists Louth will start out in Group 1 against Cork in Navan the day before though the throw-in time has yet to be confirmed. It’s due to be a home game for Louth but as there is no ground in the county fit to host such a fixture, they nominated Pairc Tailteann.

Also on May 27, two-in-a-row Ulster champions Derry welcome Monaghan to Celtic Park in Group 4 (7pm), while Armagh play Westmeath at the BOX-IT Athletic Grounds earlier that day (4.45pm).

The Joe McDonagh Cup final between Offaly and Carlow is to take place at Croke Park on that day also and, as of now, is due to form a double header with the All-Ireland under-20 hurling final after a shift in policy this year. Previously, the McDonagh final was played as a double header with the Leinster hurling final.

However, Offaly will likely seek a postponement of the under-20 final should they get there by beating Wexford in tonight’s Leinster final at Netwatch Cullen Park as they have players involved in both panels, albeit Kilcormac/Killoughey’s Charlie Mitchell is the only regular starter for both teams.

As a tier two county, Offaly are allowed to use players at both under-20 and senior level without any restriction though that’s not the case for Cork, who qualified for the All-Ireland under-20 final by beating Clare in the Munster final on Monday night.

After the game, their captain, Ben Cunningham, hit out at the fact the senior player Eoin Downey, as well as Clare counterpart Adam Hogan, couldn’t play due to the seven-day rule with the senior game between the two counties approaching on Sunday next.

“The best players at our age want to be playing in these games, in the Munster final,” said Cunningham. “I don’t see why they can’t do it. Eoin would have had no problem playing today and playing again in six days’ time.”

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