RTÉ'S schedule of live broadcasts for the summer has been finalised with the GAA. This is the second year of the championship qualifiers in both football and hurling and a bumper programme of 38 matches over 27 days will be televised.

It starts in four weeks with a double bill featuring Munster champions Cork against NFL Division Two A winners Limerick, plus All-Ireland champions Armagh's first defence of their Ulster title against Monaghan.

The matches will continue up to the All-Ireland football final on September 28th.

That Limerick-Cork match has been brought forward by a fortnight to accommodate Limerick, who expect to have a number of dual players this season.

Because of Munster's date with Leicester in the European Cup quarter-finals on Sunday, Limerick have brought forward their NHL game against Waterford on the same day to 1.30, at Kilmallock.