Longford will meet Kildare or Wicklow in the 2019 Leinster Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland champions Dublin in the same half of the draw

leinster senior football championship 2019

New Longford senior football manager Padraic Davis.

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Padraic O'Brien

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padraig.obrien@longford-leader.ie

Longford will meet Kildare or Wicklow in the quarter-final of the 2019 Leinster SFC under the guidance of new manager Padraic Davis.

A tough draw for Longford if Kildare score their expected win over Wicklow in Round 1 and thus set up a repeat of last year’s qualifier clash.   

Four-in-row All-Ireland champions Dublin are in the same half of the draw which was made live on RTE on Thursday night. 

Longford's reward for reaching the Leinster SFC semi-final for the first time in 30 years last season was a bye through to the quarter-finals in 2019 as one of the seeded teams.

The complete 2019 Leinster Senior Football Championship draw is as follows with venues to be confirmed: 

First Round  

Louth v Wexford

Wicklow v Kildare

Meath v Offaly

Quarter-Finals 

Louth or Wexford v Dublin

Wicklow or Kildare v Longford

Meath or Offaly v Carlow

Westmeath v Laois

Semi-Finals

Louth, Wexford or Dublin v Wicklow, Kildare or Longford

Meath, Offaly or Carlow v Westmeath or Laois

County Hurlers in Nicky Rackard Cup

The Longford senior hurlers will meet Warwickshire, Monaghan and Armagh in the group stage of the 2019 Nicky Rackard Cup with the top two teams to qualify for the semi-finals

In the other group are Mayo, Tyrone, Louth and Sligo.

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GALLERY | RTÉ's Nationwide goes all along the banks of Royal Canal from Clondra in Longford to Dublin's Spencer Dock

RTÉ Nationwide presenters Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh and Anne Cassin

All next week on RTÉ Nationwide, presenters Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh take a journey along the Royal Canal, all 146 kilometers of it, stretching from Spencer Dock in Dublin all the way to Clondra, Co Longford. 


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Beginning at opposite ends, Anne Cassin starts her journey in Dublin, heading west, and it’s all aboard in Clondra for Bláthnaid NíChofaigh, going east towards Mullingar where the two presenters meet.


All along the way, presenters Anne and Bláthnaid will meet the communities for whom the canal is of great importance. 

Anne takes a barge trip from Dublin through the unique landscape of the Deep Sinking, to Leixlip, and rambles on to Maynooth, where the Royal Canal greenway begins. From there she visits an art gallery in Kilcock, she runs with Na Fianna running club in Enfield and meets some canoeists at Ribbontail. 

While all that is going on, Bláthnaid goes to Strokestown House and learns about the National Famine Way, she visits the Tidy Towns winning village of Abbeyshrule, joins a rambling group in Ballynacargy and meets Clare Crinnigan, who was born in a lock house on the canal. 

Nationwide all next week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7PM on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.


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