Tailteann Cup preliminary round: All you need to know

SATURDAY 21 MAY

Tailteann Cup preliminary round Wicklow v Waterford, Aughrim, 3pm

SUNDAY 22 MAY

Tailteann Cup preliminary round Wexford v Offaly, Aughrim, 3pm

ONLINE Live blog on Wexford v Offaly on RTÉ Sport Online and RTÉ News Now app.

TV Wexford v Offaly live worldwide on GAAGO. Highlights of all the weekend's action on The Sunday Game, RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player from 9.30pm.

RADIO Live updates on Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport, RTÉ Radio 1.

WEATHER Saturday: Staying generally cloudy tomorrow with just a few sunny spells. While a good deal of dry weather will occur some showery outbreaks of light rain will occur at times too, most frequent across Connacht and Ulster. Highest temperatures generally 14 to 17 degrees. South to southwest winds mostly light to moderate in strength.Sunday: A rather cloudy morning with showers extending countrywide. Brightening up in the afternoon with some sunshine in between showers. Highest temperatures of 14 to 18 degrees with moderate southwest breezes. For more go to met.ie.

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And so it begins

A secondary competition in Gaelic football, not universally loved in the past, with the Tommy Murphy feeling the most unloved, is with us again in the shape of the Tailteann Cup. Perhaps we're in an era of greater acceptance now. Such a competition is needed.

General interest in the maiden edition may not crank up until the semi-final stage, when RTÉ cameras will be on hand to further illuminate what we hope are two mid-summer crackers. The final will form part of a