Women's Football All-Ireland Senior Championship draw:All-Ireland champions Cork were drawn in the same group as Galway - probably the strongest of the second seeded teams - in last night's TG4 Women's Football Senior Championship draw at Croke Park.

Galway, who lost their Connacht title last Sunday after extra-time to Mayo, will pose serious questions of the reigning champions Cork, who are joined by past masters Monaghan and coming team Roscommon in Pool Two.

National League champions Mayo, who were the first team named in the draw, are joined by Waterford, Kerry and Dublin in a very tricky Pool One.

Leinster champions Laois will fancy their chances of advancing from Pool Three as they must contend with Tyrone, Sligo and Donegal. And last year's AllIreland runners-up Armagh will be hotly favoured to advance from the last pool, which they occupy along with Kildare, Meath and Down.

The first round of pool matches will take place on the weekend of July 14th and 15th. Each team will play the other counties in their respective groups once and the top two from each pool will advance to an open draw for the quarter-finals of the championship.

TG4 - who broadcast the draw live from Croke Park yesterday - have announced they will broadcast two games live each weekend over the first seven weeks of the championship as well as the All-Ireland final in Croke Park on September 23rd.

TG4 broadcast 13 live women's football matches last year and the average viewing share was over nine per cent, three times TG4's average weekly share.

For the last few years, the live coverage of the senior women's football final has been consistently one of the channel's top programmes of the year.

The 2006 senior final between Armagh and Cork drew an average of 175,000 viewers, TG4's fourth most popular programme.