No general ticket sale for Munster hurling final
Limerick play Cork in the Munster decider at the Gaelic Grounds at 6pm on 7 June.
It has been confirmed that due to high demand, there will be no public sale of tickets via Ticketmaster, Centra or Supervalu outlets.
Season ticket holders from Limerick and Cork will receive their tickets through the normal channels.
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Last year, Limerick claimed the Munter title for an historic sixth time in a row, while Cork were last crowned Munster champions in 2018.
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The 42
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- The 42
'In that stage of my Tipperary career, I needed to remind myself and others what I was capable of'
IN THE EXTENSIVE search to rediscover his top form, John McGrath doesn't reckon he tried anything too off the wall to get back in the Tipperary team. He was always tinkering with his approach, though. In the aftermath of a torn Achilles, which flared up on occasion since 2022, it was feared that the Loughmore-Castleiney star's best days in blue and gold were behind him. Indeed, prior to this year, his only championship start under Liam Cahill came in the manager's Munster debut with Tipp in April 2023. 'You do go a bit mad with it at times,' said McGrath, who has been named the PwC GAA/GPA Hurler of the Month for July. 'The club form was probably one of the huge things that kept me going. In the back of your mind, you know it's there. 'You're trying to train extra, and maybe that's not working, and next thing you're trying everything to maybe recover better. 'It's funny, I saw very little League time, and it's not as if I was tearing up trees or anything in training either.' Did he have any sense that Cahill was holding him back for the Munster Championship? PwC GAA/GPA Hurler of the Month for July John McGrath. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile 'No, nothing like that. I played a small bit, didn't see any action in our last League game against Clare or the League final with Cork. Advertisement 'You certainly have conversations with lads. Frustration, at times, not playing, being left out. Look, there's 37 or 38 lads, and a lot of lads are probably asking them the same questions. 'But no, there was certainly never anything like that we're going to hold on to him for championship. 'Maybe I got into a little bit of training form at the right time, and the lads took a bit of a chance on me coming into that Limerick game. 'They said we're going to put you in, you've been there, you have the bit of experience, so it just went well for me that day and kicked on from there.' McGrath consistently stood up in the biggest games on their route to All-Ireland glory, scoring a goal against Kilkenny and two each against Limerick, Clare, and Cork, where he also won the clinching penalty. The 31-year-old doesn't think he arrived with a different approach, just a 're-found appreciation' for being back involved in those showpiece days. He did put a major emphasis on that first day out against Limerick, though. Tipperary's John McGrath to the field before playing Limerick at FBD Semple Stadium. James Crombie / INPHO James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO 'I remember Liam coming to me a couple of days before that game, and saying they were going to put me in. I put a lot of pressure on myself in that game. I probably made it out to be a bigger game in my own head than it actually was. 'The couple of previous years I had were on and off. Off more than on. In that stage of my Tipperary career, I needed to do something to remind myself and to remind others what I was capable of. 'Thank God it worked out for me a bit that day, and we'd a brilliant battle, but just to be back stuck in it, it's something you don't want to let go of.' In McGrath's own words, it was far from the best game he'd ever played, but he felt at the right level physically and departed filled with confidence. Off the back of a winless 2024, it was a sense he carried throughout the summer. 'We were losing games by double figures more than once, so it was just about getting back and being competitive. 'From the journey that we've come on this year, and where we've come from in the last couple of years, it's just been unreal. To be honest, it's hard to believe at times. 'I'm living in Thurles and you're going down the town and the flags and colour are still up and in some ways, it feels like a bit of a dream 'It's massively special and for something that you thought maybe wasn't going to come again, or maybe that at this level you were done, or weren't going to get to this level again, the satisfaction of it is just unreal.' McGrath admits there was 'an element of shock' in the manner that Tipp prevailed over Cork in the second half of the final. John McGrath celebrates scoring a goal against Cork. Laszlo Geczo / INPHO Laszlo Geczo / INPHO / INPHO He feels everything started to go right for them, while the Rebels experienced the exact opposite when hitting the woodwork four times. The biggest satisfaction was the rare achievement of saving 'the best 35 minutes of the year' for the final part of the season. With that Celtic Cross in the back pocket, did McGrath's conversations turn to doing back-to-back at any stage during the celebrations? 'As the year ticks on and it gets into the winter, those sorts of thoughts will be coming to lads. You certainly don't want to just win one and go away for a couple of years again. 'Like Tipp, we want and aim to be very competitive every year. That's not always going to lead to winning Munster Championships or All-Ireland Championships or League finals, but on any given year, Tipp should feel that there's a real chance. 'It's probably for a couple of weeks and months down the line when that kind of talk starts up. We wanted to enjoy the year we had and to celebrate that when we had the chance.'
RTÉ News
12 hours ago
- RTÉ News
John McGrath: Second half of final beyond 'wildest dreams'
Tipperary's John McGrath has admitted there was an "element of shock" in how the second half of their All-Ireland final victory over Cork unfolded. Liam Cahill's side - clear underdogs before the game and a long shot at the beginning of the campaign - outscored Cork 3-14 to 0-02 in a surreal second half to claim a first All-Ireland title in six years, just 14 months after they had finished bottom of the Munster SHC table. McGrath himself was at the centre of the second-half blitz, scoring the first and third goals and being instrumental in the creation of the second, winning the penalty which saw Eoin Downey sent off before Darragh McCarthy buried it to open up an eight-point gap. The Tipp full-forward, who this week collected the PwC GAA/GPA Hurler of the Month award for July, acknowledged there was an air of disbelief even among the winning team in the midst of the second half. "It's hard to put your finger on. In all the permutations that you're thinking (about) in the weeks leading up, they definitely all cross your mind," McGrath told RTÉ Sport this week. "But the manner in which we won it, I don't think anyone in their wildest dreams would have come up with that scenario. "There certainly was an element of shock. I knew we were relatively well up but to actually see the final score, it was kinda hard to believe that that had just happened. "Sport is funny like that. Everything just started to go right for us at a certain point of that second half. And the exact opposite for Cork at different stages - hitting the post, hitting the crossbar. Them little bits of luck are needed along the way. "But our lads just absolutely powered into that last 35 minutes. To save the best 35 minutes of the year for that time in an All-Ireland final... It's the kind of thing that you hope is going to happen. But how often does that actually come to fruition? It's unreal from that point of view." The prospect of a Tipp All-Ireland victory at any time in the near future seemed very remote at the start of the year. Cahill had faced questions about whether he intended to remain on after a wretched 2024 campaign, in which Tipp were eliminated from the Munster SHC with a game left to play after a frightful hammering at the hands of Cork in Semple Stadium. It was assumed they were deep in the weeds of a protracted rebuild. In that context, the 2025 success has been seen as one of the most abrupt and stunning turnarounds of modern times. Did the players believe they were realistic All-Ireland contenders at the beginning of 2025? "It's always in the back of your mind," McGrath says. "You certainly have a belief somewhere in you or I don't think you'd ever get to a stage of winning anything. "But mainly, we wanted to get competitive, first and foremost. Whatever comes from that, comes from it. We just needed to build ourselves back up. "We were losing games by double digits. More than once. It was about getting back to being competitive. "From that point of view, to where the year actually developed, it certainly is in some ways hard to believe. I'm living in Thurles and you're going down the town and the flags and colour are still up and in some ways, it feels like a bit of a dream. There's huge satisfaction. "After the last couple of years, a lot of lads could easily have let the things slip by a little bit. But I think we had a good bit of pride in ourselves. You want to be competing. We weren't happy looking at everyone else competing for trophies over the last couple of years." "We were losing games by double digits. More than once. It was about getting back to being competitive In some sense, McGrath's own fortunes mirrored that of the team generally. He finishes 2025 as the joint-leading scorer from play in the championship and as one of the contenders for Hurler of the Year. It's a far cry from much of the past three years. The Loughmore-Castleiney man ruptured his Achilles tendon in the 2022 Munster SHC defeat to Clare and the injury had dogged him in the interval. Now three-time All-Ireland champion McGrath, who turned 31 last month, had been reduced to the status of a bit-part player in the 2024 season, with just two championship appearances as a late sub. However, his illustrious club exploits in both codes had nurtured belief at a time when it might have ebbed away. Held in reserve for much of the league, it was the opening Munster SHC game against Limerick, in which he plundered two second-half goals in a rousing draw that proved a turning point. "Even before I had the injury, it [my form] was up and down a little bit for a year or two. The club form was one of the huge things that kept me going. In the back of your mind, you know it's there. "I saw very little league time. It's not as if I was tearing up trees at the time in training either. The lads [in the management team] took a small little bit of a chance on me coming into that Limerick game. "They said 'we're putting you in, you've been there, you have that little bit of experience.' "I probably put a lot of pressure on myself in that game. It was a sliding doors moment. I probably made it out to be a bigger game in my own head than it was. The couple of years before that had been on and off - and off more than on. "At the stage in my Tipperary career that I was at, I kinda needed to do something to remind myself and others what I was capable of. "Thank God, it kind of worked out for me that day. To be back stuck in it at that stage, it's something you don't want to let go of."
Irish Times
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- Irish Times
Galway's Aoife Donohue again rises to camogie's big occasion
Aoife Donohue found herself at the centre of a significant shift in fortunes in the All-Ireland camogie final on August 10th. Galway were settling into the challenge of preventing Cork from achieving a third successive All-Ireland. Donohue had opened the scoring, laying down a marker for what would be a sensational display. Yet in the 10th minute, she found herself covering when Amy O'Connor was heading for goal and the Galway wing forward stopped her. Penalty. 'I could kind of see it happening,' she recalls, 'the ball going over the top and I was probably hoping she mightn't catch it. Obviously I gave it away and at the time I was thinking 'oh God, Aoife, what are you after doing?' 'Sarah Healy's an unbelievable goalie as well – I would back her to save those, and once she saved it, it was probably a bit of relief. I don't know. In the moment, you don't really think about it, either. It just happened so quickly. READ MORE 'If it went in, I'd probably be regretting it, to be honest. I probably shouldn't have even been back there!' Just over a minute later, she was raiding at the other end and sweeping over a point to equalise. Then, a deft pickup in traffic and she set off on another run before supplying the assist for Mairéad Dillon's goal to put Galway in front. Aoife Donohue with her PwC GPA Player of the Month camogie award for July/August. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile Her display earned consensus Player of the Match recognition and the final PwC GAA/GPA Player of the Month award on Monday, after which she spoke remotely to media. The Mullagh player's flair for the big occasion had previously been in evidence. Twelve months ago, despite losing narrowly to Cork in last year's All-Ireland final, she picked up the same award. One platform of Galway's unexpected success was the physical commitment they brought to the contest. Camogie had suffered in the past from fussy enforcement of contact. The more robust nature of the final was one of the elements that made it such a compelling spectacle. 'I suppose when you're in the middle of it, you don't really think about it too much,' she said. 'Looking back at it now, the tackles, the physicality jumped through the roof. I thought last year's All-Ireland final had gone up another level, but I think last Sunday it went up another one again. 'It's great for camogie and, in fairness to the referee as well, he allowed for that and it contributed to the game that it was.' It's an evolution she welcomes. 'We've obviously been calling on it for quite a while now. As players, all of us are a lot stronger, fitter, faster – we're able for it. It's definitely something we've been looking for.' Cork's Meabh Cahalane attempts to block a shot from Galway's Aoife Donohue. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Galway's progress had been noted. Like Tipperary's hurlers, they had lost the league final to Cork by double digits and yet rebounded through a steadily improving championship to deny the favourites in the All-Ireland final. Donohue questions the relevance of that earlier outcome. 'I suppose, on the day (of the league final), Cork blew us off the pitch, to be totally honest. Obviously, we were probably looking at ourselves, wondering where we were going to go but, no, I wouldn't say we ever stopped believing – sure there was a full championship to go. So, yeah, it wasn't really relevant but, obviously, you take learnings from it. 'Our championship went fairly well. We were kind of building game on game. Last year, we were – not struggling, but winning games by a point or two, whereas, I felt this year we were performing a little bit better. As the year went on we got stronger as a group. 'Our goal was, obviously, to get straight to a semi-final. We topped our group, had a four-week block there of hard training ... and I thought we performed fairly well in the semi-final against Tipperary.' And the future? 'We love it; we love playing camogie. You wouldn't be coming back if you didn't love doing what you were doing. It's never hard. Like, I'll stay playing as long as I can. It's because we love it so much, it's never hard to come back when you're enjoying it.'
