RTÉ GAA Podcast: Mad hurling and unpredictable football

Ahead of a massive weekend of football and hurling, Mikey Stafford and Rory O'Neill are joined by Eamonn Fitzmaurice and Shane Dowling to look ahead to the action.

The hurling gets underway in Munster and Leinster, while there are a host of interesting provincial football matches across the four provinces.

Eamonn believes Galway will get it done against Roscommon, but means no slight to Davy Burke, as he believes it will be a close run thing. He also thinks New York will put it up to Sligo.

He assesses Kerry's growth ahead of their opener against Tipperary, with his old team-mate Darragh Ó Sé saying this week he does not think they have strengthened sufficiently since winning Sam.

We have two genuine coin tosses in Ulster, with Cavan's league form suggesting they can beat a somewhat confused Armagh, while Donegal's awful spring will have given a resurgent Down plenty of hope.

As always, take Dublin out of it and the Leinster SFC would be the most fascinating provincial championship, with three very hard to call quarter-finals on Sunday (plus Laois v Dublin).

HURLING FROM 47 MINUTES

On Mikey's last podcast Shane lands the final blow, dismissing Wexford's chances of getting out of Leinster. Darragh Egan's side face Galway in Salthill, with Henry Shefflin's side quietly going about their business and adding depth to their already formidable team.

In Munster it is altogether harder to call, with one game at least. Can Tipperary overturn Clare in Ennis to blow the Munster SHC wide open? Shane thinks that Liam Cahill has instilled a mentality in Tipp that may be hard to beat, while he thinks the lack of drama in Clare may actually be a hindrance (not that he is giving them anything to pin to the dressingroom wall).

Shane predicts