Well as you may have heard yesterday evening, The GAA have given Tyrone an extra week in the hope they can field a team for the All-Ireland semi-final meeting with Kerry.
The CCCC met yesterday and announced last night that the game will now be pushed back a further week to Saturday August 28th in Croke Park.
The game, which was originally due to be played yesterday was pushed back one week to next weekend. Tyrone responded on Saturday to say that there was no way of fielding a team for the one-week delayed fixture.
At 5:30 yesterday, Kerry GAA Chairman Tim Murphy released a statement showing Kerry’s intent to play the semi-final, be it at the earliest available time that Tyrone were able to field a side. He added that all of Kerry’s All Ireland wins were hard fought and he wanted this year’s campaign to a potential All Ireland victory to be the same.
And at 7pm last night, an official statement from Croke Park announced that Kerry and Tyrone is to be played on Saturday August 28th, 13 days after the original fixture was due to take place. The All Ireland Football Final has also been pushed back to Saturday, September 11th.
Times for both the Kerry Tyrone semi final and All Ireland Final will be announced in the coming days.
This was Tim Murphy speaking on Sunday Sport yesterday afternoon
GAA STATEMENT
Fixtures Update – GAA Football Championship
Following receipt of additional medical information from Tyrone GAA and subsequent deliberations with the relevant parties today, the GAA can confirm arrangements for the concluding stages of the 2021 Football championship.
The second semi-final involving Kerry and Tyrone will now take place on Saturday August 28 with the winners proceeding to a final meeting with Mayo two weeks later on September 11.
This revised schedule has been finalised with the integrity of the championship in mind and to ensure that Kerry were not denied a semi-final outing.
The GAA would like to acknowledge the co-operation of all of the counties still involved in the championship and it looks forward to working with the government to finalise these arrangements.
Times for both fixtures will be confirmed in due course.
