By Patrick Sharkey,
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Four GAA matches will be televised by RTÉ Sport this weekend in a bumper weekend of coverage.
Mayo's Connacht exit has been forgotten about. The main story of the championship in football has been the rise of Louth and on episode 40 of the GAA Zone podcast, 2017 Liam McCarthy cup winner Paul Flaherty is full of praise for Louth saying: "Fair play to Louth in the All-Ireland championship. There are a lot of good teams in the Tailteann cup that hasn't gone that far. So, you give huge credit to Mickey Harte and the Louth team. They had a good league campaign. Obviously, they were promoted back-to-back. Sam Mulroy has been their star forward who has been carrying them through the games though. You must give Louth huge credit. Cork you know, the Munster championship isn't as competitive as it was years ago, and Kerry just seems to be a way ahead of them. Cork is probably second in command there, yeah it is going to be a tough one. Everybody is going to give Cork the upper hand here, but I don't think there will be much in it. I say a point or two, but it would be great to see from maybe just a neutral perspective, to see Louth take themselves over the line. The rebels kind of call themselves the capital of Ireland sometime when Dublin people aren't listening." There's a big schedule of sports for the June bank holiday weekend, with championship action across football, hurling, and camogie. The major events of the weekend are undoubtedly the provincial hurling deciders in Munster and Leinster. Neighbours Clare and Limerick face off for the second time in the space of four weeks in the Munster matter down in Thurles.
If New York defeats Offaly, they will be returning to Ireland two weeks later for the Tailteann Cup.
The 2 Johnnies Podcast in Ireland is promising the third installment of their 'GAA catfish' saga as more than 100 people have come forward claiming to have been directly targeted. However, the main podcast this week is the GAA Zone podcast with Paul Flaherty believing Cork footballers got lucky in their qualifier drawing saying: "From a Cork perspective it is probably the best they could have got."
Former Donegal star Eamonn McGee is calling on local GAA clubs to show their colours for Pride.
Gardai are investigating 'an alleged incident of assault' during a GAA minor match on Monday evening.
There are 40 clubs in Louth, a county with a population of approximately 130,000. If Louth advance against Cork, they will be happy to know they won't be facing the winners of Mayo and Monaghan.
A Lahinch man has won Clare GAA's prize-giving away a house in Lahinch. Another man looking for a win like that at home will be James Horan when his side takes on Monaghan and Mr. Flaherty is looking forward to the game: "It's going to be tough this one. Mayo have been knocking on the door of the All-Ireland championship the last few years and everybody thought when they beat Dublin last year, they would go one step further, but it just didn't fruition. Tyrone was better on the day."
A final call is being made to GAA followers in Westmeath to have their stories published in the second edition of a grassroots book on the organisation. Stories could include when Monaghan hosted Westmeath back in Clones in 2008 for the final round of division two in which a Banty coached side missed out on promotion two with a 20-year-old Conor McManus and since then Flaherty has reflected on the Farney rise saying: "It's hard to know because they have been about for so long".
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