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Matt Cooper

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

Colm Keyes is with us, GA correspondent of the Irish Independent.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

Let's start though with undoubtedly, and I was saying this to Stephen Doyle earlier, good luck with talking first about Dublin and Donegal.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

The game of the weekend next weekend has to be the reigning champions Kerry against the previous year's champions Armagh, particularly after what happened in the quarterfinal last year.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

This is what a draw this is.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

And Colm, it will only be available to view on GA+, so we know what controversy that's going to cause.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

But yes, for the second time... Very generous of the GAA to allow that not to be on GAA+.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

Just...

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

OK, of course, the other interesting thing about it, Will, is that the Dublin-Dunegall game, and we're focusing, I suppose, this evening, I suppose, a little bit on the arrangements for next weekend.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

On Friday's Last Word in Sport, we'll do full previews of the fixtures.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

But a quarter past one,

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

is the most unusual time I think I've ever seen a championship game been picked for of this magnitude.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

How much of that was done possibly to the fact that we have an All-Ireland quarterfinal in the hurling between Cork and Offaly down in Turles, isn't it?

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

It is the most efficient...

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

Yeah, I think everyone expected that we would have Kerry and Dublin coming through comfortably to be in the round three as they are.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

But I suspect both Donegal and Armagh column must be absolutely gobsmacked as to how they have ended up there.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

Donegal, I'm sure, could not have seen any circumstances in which they would lose at home to Cork.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

And similarly, for Armagh to lose in literally the last play of the game against Lowes yesterday.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

Extraordinary that they're now in round three.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

The thing is, though, how much energy they'll have to take to do it before they play the following weekend of the quarterfinals, not getting the weekend off.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Kerry To Face Armagh, Dublin To Host Donegal In All-Ireland Series

Willow Callaghan, though, what about the so-called controversy about the shot clock and the hooter in the Armagh-Louth game?