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involved are to have one match at home, one away and one at a neutral venue.
Croke Park is regarded as a neutral venue for Dublin, but they have played the vast majority of their Championship games there going back 15 years.
The first round of fixtures involving the four provincial winners – Dublin v Donegal and Galway v Kerry – will take place on July 14/15 in Croke Park.
A joint statement by the GAA and the Donegal County Board yesterday read: “It was accepted as part of these discussions, that the rules in relation to the new All-ireland SFC quarter final round robin system had been democratically adopted at Congress 2017 and that these provided for all Round 1 games to be played at Croke Park and each county to subsequently have one home and one away game.
“While Donegal challenged how any team could nominate Croke Park as their home venue, it was acknowledged that there was nothing in the rules to prohibit this.
“Donegal also requested in light of the issues they highlighted, that a review of the first year of the new championship structures be held by Central Council later in the year.
“It was agreed.. that if Central Council collectively felt that non-structural changes to aspects of the Championship were required, that these could be put to Congress 2019.”