Dublin and Mayo are set for the latest chapter in their dramatic championship history having been drawn together in the All-Ireland quarter-final while Kerry will meet Tyrone in a repeat of the 2021 semi-final encounters.
Ireland internationals Sam Monaghan, Neve Jones and Kathryn Buggy played their part as Gloucester-Hartpury became the first non-London club to win the Allianz Premier 15s final.
Watch the highlights of Saturday's All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals, the four All-Ireland football preliminary quarter-finals and the two Tailteann Cup semi-finals
Four goals in each half comfortably sealed Down's passage to the Tailteann Cup final as they ran out 8-16 to 2-12 winners against a disappointing Laois side in Croke Park.
Mayo manager Kevin McStay said his side were well placed to have a tilt at the All-Ireland after they edged out their provincial rivals Galway by a point in a tense preliminary quarter-final in Salthill.
Ben Healy picked up a brilliant win on the final day of the Road National Championships in Dungannon, Co Tyrone, to cap off a superb couple of months that also featured a Giro d'Italia stage win.
Mayo knocked biggest rivals Galway out of the championship as a tremendous rally after the break saw them advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals by a single point.
A storming third-quarter performance elevated Meath to an anticipated but battling Tailteann Cup semi-final win, securing the Royals a return to Croke Park for the 15 July final.
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Monaghan match-winner Conor McCarthy said that the thought of another year absent from the All-Ireland quarter-finals was the driving factor in their thrilling one-point win over Kildare in Tullamore.
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Joost Luiten moved himself to the verge of completing a brilliant career comeback as a bogey-free 65 handed him a three-shot lead heading into the final round of the BMW International Open.
Conor McCarthy struck a dramatic 75th-minute winner as Monaghan finished strongly in Tullamore to claim a 1-11 to 0-13 victory over Kildare and book an All-Ireland SFC quarter-final place.