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Irish Mirror
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Vincent Whelan

When is the All-Ireland football quarter-final draw?

There are just eight counties still alive in this year's football Championship after this weekend's qualifiers.

All four provincial final losers suffered defeat as they all struggled to bounce back and go again.

That means Armagh, Cork, Mayo and Clare will be paired off with Dublin, Kerry, Galway and Derry.

Interestingly, it was noted on RTE's Sunday Game coverage that Cork cannot be drawn against Kerry while Mayo can't face Galway either.

And yet Armagh and Derry can meet as they haven't played each other in the Championship yet.

The draw will take place on Monday morning, June 13, on Morning Ireland at around 8:30 am.

On the back of their convincing 3-17 to 0-15 win over Donegal, Armagh are probably the team the provincial champs all want to avoid.

The younger team really took over in the second half to cruise through here despite the opening 35 minutes being a rip-roaring contest.

The game was a cracker from the vert start as Rory Grugan plucked Rian O'Neill's pass out of the sky before burying it past Shaun Patton after only 10 seconds, making it the second-fastest goal in Championship history.

Despite the early hammer blow though Donegal responded superbly and hit six points without reply with the likes of Micheal Murphy, Ciarán Thompson and Patrick McBrearty all hitting vintage scores from play.

But the turning point of the match came when Patton hit an ill-advised short kickout despite a heavy press being on.

Armagh turned them over and in his effort to prevent Aidan Nugent from scoring, the Donegal keeper rugby tackled him to the ground.

A penalty was awarded while he was also shown a black card.

Man of the match Rian O'Neill clinically dispatched the spot kick and the pendulum swung back their way to the extent that they went in at the break leading by four.

However, for as much as the first half was as free-flowing as you could hope to see, the second half turned out to be a real damp squib as Donegal never really showed up.

Once they fell five or six down they started solely going for goal even when it was not on which helped Armagh to really take the sting out of the game.

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