DΘjα vu all around in the draw for the All-Ireland quarter-finals made last night. No fewer than three of the matches will be reruns of provincial championship fixtures: Meath-Westmeath, Derry-Tyrone and Galway-Roscommon. In the odd tie out, Dublin meet Kerry in the counties' first championship meeting in 16 years.

Dates and venues were also announced. On Saturday week, Dublin and Kerry play in Thurles at 3.00 p.m., with Galway and Roscommon meeting that evening at 6.15 p.m. in Castlebar. The next day, Derry and Tyrone reprise in Clones at 2.30 p.m., followed at 4.20 p.m. by Meath-Westmeath in Croke Park.

There will be an acute sense of disappointment that the eagerly awaited draw has turned out to be such an anti-climax.

This is the first year of the quarter-final experiment and the appeal of the qualifiers, which concluded at the weekend, was at least partly based on the bringing together of counties that had never met in the championship.

Not alone have all these pairings met frequently but apart from Dublin and Kerry, the others all played earlier this summer.

Westmeath lost a five-point lead in the closing stages against Meath to go down by a point, Tyrone edged out Derry and Roscommon shocked then Connacht champions Galway en route to succeeding them.

The semi-final draw is also now complete. The winners of Tyrone- Derry will play the winners of Galway-Roscommon on 26th August and a week later the survivors of Dublin-Kerry take on Meath or Westmeath.

Filling the last of the quarter-final places were the teams contesting yesterday's fourth-round qualifiers. A bumper crowd of 60,762 was at Croke Park to see Galway and Dublin progress. Galway made heavy weather of defeating Cork and saw an early 10-point lead whittled away to a point by the 65th minute.

They recovered to extend the winning margin to four. It was an eventful afternoon for the team's final centrefield partnership of Seβn ╙ D≤mhnaill and Michael Donnellan. The former was married on Saturday and came on a substitute yesterday but was clearly out of sorts.

Donnellan received a dead leg in the early stages of the match but played on. He did manage to kick a 55-metre free with the numbed appendage even if his trademark solo runs were markedly absent. He was visibly annoyed after his quick free led to ╙ D≤mhnaill fumbling the ball and turned away from the action.

After the anxieties of yesterday's success, Galway must now contemplate playing their quarter-final without Jarlath Fallon. The centre forward injured his hamstring in the second half of yesterday's match. "It's not looking good," said manager John O'Mahony. "It was a very bad pull and initial signs are that he probably won't be ready in two weeks."

Another injury concern is dual player Alan Kerins who hurt his shoulder and may miss the county's All-Ireland hurling quarter-final against Derry next Sunday.

Dublin also have injury concerns after yesterday's comfortable win over Sligo. "That was a lot of anger in that performance after last week," said Tom Carr of the team's blitzkrieg recovery from the Leinster final defeat by Meath.

Coman Goggins and Enda Sheehy (hamstring), Darren Homan (viral infection), Colin Moran (groin strain) and Ian Robertson ("a bit of a knee", according to Carr) will require medical attention ahead of the quarter-final.

All-Ireland quarter-final draw

Dublin v Kerry (Sat Aug 4th; Thurles 3.0)

Roscommon v Galway (Sat Aug 4th; Castlebar 6.15)

Derry v Tyrone (Sun Aug 5th; Clones 2.30)

Westmeath v Meath (Sun Aug 5th; Croke Park 4.20)

Semi-final draw

Derry/Tyrone v Galway/Roscommon (Aug 26th)

Dublin/Kerry v Westmeath/Meath (Sept 2nd)