Major ticket update for Munster senior hurling final as Limerick set to host Cork in mouth-watering clash
TICKETS for the Munster senior hurling final between Limerick and Cork will NOT be available to the general pubic.
Munster GAA provided an update on the ticketing situation for the game scheduled for Saturday, June 7 at the TUS Gaelic Grounds.
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Limerick face Cork in the Munster hurling final
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Tickets will not be put on general sale
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And amid surging interest, the provincial council confirmed that tickets will not be available via general sale but will instead only be available through the respective county boards.
A statement read: 'Due to the high demand, tickets for the Munster Senior Hurling Final on Saturday June 7 at 6pm in the TUS Gaelic Grounds Limerick will be distributed through the participating County Boards only.
'Season ticket holders from Limerick and Cork will receive their tickets through the normal channels.
"There will be no public sale of tickets via Ticketmaster, Centra or Supervalu outlets.'
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The Munster final will be the third occasion on which Cork and Limerick go head-to-head.
In the opening round of the league, they drew 1-16 apiece as the Rebels went on to win Division 1A.
They rematched in the championship round robin, with John Kiely's men
Pat Ryan's men bounced back by doing the
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The Rebels will compete in a Munster final for the first time since 2018, and Pat Ryan admitted the nerves got to them against the Deise.
He said: 'We left an awful lot of chances behind us. But it's knockout Championship, there's going to be a bit more trepidation in it, a bit more nervousness in it.
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'Both ourselves and Waterford knew that if we didn't win, we'd be out of the Championship. We played a small bit like that, with a bit of nerves.'
Ryan's side finished the game with their wides tally at 17.
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And he added: 'That's something we'll work on, the efficiency side of it, but I thought our work-rate, our hitting the breaks, our hunger to get on the ball was an awful lot better than it was last week and that's the way it should be. That's the standard.
'You're not always going to play as well or have great hurling at times and things might not come off in your game-plan.
"But your work-rate, your attitude and your character has to be the standard.
'From our point of view, the attitude last week wasn't good enough. The effort wasn't good enough. I don't think we played brilliant hurling today but today was about attitude and character.'
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While Cork are back in the decider after seven years away, Limerick are into their seventh consecutive provincial final.
John Kiely opted for eight changes against Clare.
Declan Hannon made his first appearance of the season, and Shane Dowling lined out for his first championship game since the 2019 All-Ireland semi-final against Kilkenny.
The manager was left agitated on the sideline by his team's mistakes.
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He said: 'We just didn't come out of the blocks in the second half.
'It was one of our weakest quarters of the game. We lacked intensity, a bit of energy, and accuracy in what we were doing.
'We made too many mistakes and ultimately, across the 70 minutes, on analysis it will be shown that we made quite an inordinate number of errors.
"Just missed pick-ups, dropped balls, misplaced passes, unforced errors, if you like."
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