The 2022 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football championships were officially launched at Croke Park today, with representatives from the participating counties present at the venue which will host the Finals on July 31.

There was a buzz of excitement with the news that TG4 have committed to a five-year extension to the partnership, going all the way to 2027 having first come on board in 2001.

This years Championships commence next Sunday, May 29, with five games in the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship.

The Intermediate Championship continues on Sunday, June 5, while the Junior Championship begins on the same day.

The Senior Championship commences on Saturday, June 11, with the first of three rounds in the group stages. The four provincial finals take place this weekend with the Leinster Final between Dublin and Meath being played at Croke Park as a doubleheader with the Leinster Men’s Football Championship final and televised on TG4.

A host of leading inter-county stars joined Máire Ní Bhraonáin at the Knowth megalithic passage-tomb site in county Meath, the home of the current TG4 All-Ireland Senior Champions, to mark the launch of the 2022 TG4 All-Ireland Championships.

Pictured above were Orlagh Lally from Meath, Dublin’s Jennifer Dunne, Olivia Divilly from Galway, Donegal’s Susanne White and Waterford’s Karen McGrath.

The Senior players were joined by Intermediate duo Clare Owens of Leitrim and Niamh O’Neill of Tyrone, as well as Junior Players Clíodhna Ní Shé from Carlow and Róisín Ambrose of Limerick.

The Senior Championship will be contested by All Ireland Champions Meath and both their predecessors Dublin and Cork as well as Galway, Mayo, Donegal and Waterford.

Beaten Intermediate Finalists last year, Wexford will be a contender for the Mary Quinn Memorial Cup but in a wide-open field, Clare, Tyrone, Leitrim, Roscommon and Kildare, among others, will also fancy their chances.

And in the Junior grade, seven teams are bidding for glory, namely Derry, London, Carlow, Fermanagh, New York, Antrim and Limerick.
Antrim were runners-up last year, while London and New York are both returning to the TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship following recent absences.

All details relating to the TG4 All-Ireland Championships, including groupings and fixtures, can be found by visiting the official LGFA website: https://ladiesgaelic.ie/

 

 

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