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RTÉ News
04-07-2025
- Climate
- RTÉ News
All-Ireland SHC semi-finals: All you need to know
Saturday 5 July Cork v Dublin, Croke Park, 5pm Sunday 6 July Kilkenny v Tipperary, Croke Park, 4pm ONLINE Live blog on and the RTÉ News app. TV Live coverage of Cork v Dublin on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, coverage commencing at 2.15pm on Saturday, with Waterford v Clare in the All-Ireland camogie championship preceding the semi-final. Live coverage of Kilkenny v Tipperary on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, coverage commencing on 1.15pm on Saturday, with the meeting of the same counties in the All-Ireland camogie championship beforehand. Watch highlights on The Sunday Game from 10.15pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. RADIO Live commentaries and updates on Saturday Sport & Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 - and Spórt an tSathairn and Spórt an Lae on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. WEATHER Saturday: Mostly cloudy on Saturday with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle. While a few bright spells will develop, it'll stay rather cloudy overall. Highest temperatures of 16 to 22 degrees, warmest in the south and east, where it will feel quite mild and humid. Sunday: Cloudy to begin. Brightening up through the afternoon and for the evening with sunny spells and scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 14 to 19 degrees. Semi close to sellout as hurling fever takes hold Tickets are thin on the ground for this weekend's first semi-final, either a further of sign of the expectancy and hype that has taken hold in Cork this year or an indication that hurling fever has finally swept the capital in the wake of the quarter-final triumph and the Dublin footballers' championship exit. Probably a bit of both. When Cork finally saw off Limerick after a penalty shootout on that June evening in the Gaelic Grounds, few would have foreseen that John Kiely's side would be gone from the championship the next time the newly crowned Munster champions took the field. The Dublin hurlers' shock defeat of Limerick in the quarter-final has been described as the greatest upset in the hurling championship in decades, possibly since Antrim's landmark win over Offaly in 1989 (Though Dublin's own humbling at the hands of Laois six years ago is also in the mix.) It was all the more stunning given that they played the majority of the game with 14 men, their celebrated half-back Chris Crummey being red carded for an elbow on Gearóid Hegarty in the first half, with his suspension upheld for this weekend's semi-final. Few beforehand had given Dublin much of a chance against Limerick, especially given their previous championship outing had been a fairly conclusive home defeat at the hands of a Galway team who weren't exactly pulling up trees themselves in 2025. The Dubs led 15-12 at the break following an impressive first half display. However, there was an assumption all the while that Limerick would eventually cut loose and the established order would remain in place. That script appeared to be playing out by the 51st minute, when they nudged 19-18 ahead. However, then Dublin plundered two goals in a minute and suddenly things all got very real. Big John Hetherton, creating chaos inside, fired the first goal on the swivel - a much cleaner strike than his similar-ish goal against Wexford. Then, he broke another high ball down for the excellent Cian O'Sullivan, who slammed home the second. From there, they held on for a famous win, one which possibly even surpasses their Leinster title victory in 2013. History corner - a fixture of woe for the Dubs Saturday will be the 19th meeting of Cork and Dublin in the hurling championship, the former leading 15-2 in the head-to-head, with a solitary draw - back in 1904, since you asked. The Dublin hurlers nominally have seven All-Ireland titles, however all of them dating from the pre-Second World War period when the team was comprised of migrants from hurling country, a disproportionate number of them members of an Garda Síochána. The Dublin team that last beat Cork in the championship in the 1927 All-Ireland final was about as Dublin as a plate of drisheen. The team included Pa McInerney, who previously won the 1914 All-Ireland with his native Clare, Dicksboro's Matty Power, who won four of his five All-Irelands with Kilkenny, and Ballinderreen's Mick Gill, previously part of the 1923 All-Ireland winning Galway team. Other members of the team included Garrett Howard (from Patrickswell), Tommy Daly (Tulla) and Jim 'Builder' Walsh (Mooncoin)... and so on. Cork won the four All-Ireland finals contested between the sides during their glory days of the 1940s and early 50s, aka, the Christy Ring era. The 1952 All-Ireland final was their last championship encounter until an inauspicious Parnell Park qualifier in 2007, just before the Dubs re-emerged as a respectable hurling force in the late 2000s. Cork are seven from seven in championship meetings between the pair in the 21st century. Aside from the '07 game, there have been no real blowouts, most Cork wins being of the arm's length variety - last year's drab, goalless quarter-final being fairly typical. By far the most notable game was the 2013 semi-final, when Anthony Daly's Dublin were serious contenders for an All-Ireland title and appeared to have the upper hand for most of the game until Ryan O'Dwyer's sending off midway through the second half. There was still only a point in it until Pat Horgan's late goal decisively turned the game in Cork's favour. Team news Cork stalwart Seamus Harnedy, a veteran of the 2013 clash, misses out due to a hamstring injury, while Cormac O'Brien is laid low with a quad issue. They're boosted by the return of Declan Dalton at wing-forward, while Rob Downey is able to start this time out. Niall O'Leary comes in for Damien Cahalane at corner back. The Dubs are without the suspended Crummey, though Conor Donohoe returns having served his penance after the CCCC's attention was drawn to his wild swing on John Fleming in the Galway game. Conor Burke slips back to centre-back, while in attack, Darragh Power starts at wing-forward with Diarmuid Ó Dulaing dropping out. Kilkenny and Tipperary meet again after lull in rivalry Time was when this was an annual meeting. The Tipp-Kilkenny match-up accounted for exactly half of all All-Ireland finals in the 2010s. However, the sides haven't collided in the championship since the 2019 decider, when Liam Sheedy's side devoured Kilkenny after Richie Hogan was sent off in the run in to half-time. Tipp, in particular, have been through a pretty savage transitional period, with the celebrated team of the 2010s drifting into retirement and their successors struggling to make the step up. Between 2022 and 2024, they won just one from 12 Munster SHC games. Last season, the Tipp hurling public made clear, by their absence, how little they thought of the current crop. Liam Cahill cut a disconsolate figure at the end of last season. But they've been rejuvenated under his management this year. People were reluctant to read much into their strong league campaign, given its unreliability as an indicator in the past. But this was backed up by a strong showing in Munster, with wins over Clare and Waterford guaranteeing at worst a third place spot. The All-Ireland winning U-20 team has provided an infusion of players, with Darragh McCarthy, Oisín O'Donoghue and Sam O'Farrell impressing throughout the season. Jake Morris and Andrew Ormond, both graduates from the 2019 U20 All-Ireland team, hit a combined 0-10 from play from the half-forward line against Galway in the quarters. The side still contains eight players who had some involvement in the 2019 senior final, though Noel McGrath and Seamus Kennedy were subs the last day, while Jake Morris and Willie Connors were subs six years ago. In total, there are seven survivors from the Kilkenny side in 2019 that played in last month's Leinster final - Eoin Murphy, Huw Lawlor, Paddy Deegan, John Donnelly, TJ Reid, Adrian Mullen and Billy Ryan. The Cats are seeking to bridge a 10-year gap to their last All-Ireland win - which already ties their longest drought since they won their first title in 1904. They may sniff an opportunity with Limerick unexpectedly taken out of the equation, Kilkenny having lost the 2022 and 2023 finals before being caught in a late Clare surge in last year's semi-final. The current crop seem suffused with the same dogged spirit as previous Kilkenny teams and have achieved something of note with a six-in-a-row in Leinster, a milestone which has almost crept up on people. Eoin Cody, absent for the Leinster final, is back available and provides them with a potent goal threat. Mossy Keoghan, their designated point-scorer from play during the cold winter months in the league, has been in superb form this year and opportunistically plundered 2-02 against Galway. Their middle third was especially dominant the last day, with Cian Kenny and Adrian Mullen buzzing around and hitting 0-06 from play combined. While Reid, now 37, was as magisterial as ever. History corner Six years feels like a lifetime without a Kilkenny-Tipperary meeting in the context of the last two decades but the rivalry has gone through longer lulls before. The 1991 All-Ireland final, decided by Pat Fox's brilliance, was their only championship meeting in the last quarter of the 20th century. Prior to this century, Tipperary were unquestionably Kilkenny's bogey team, the Cats regularly suffering in Hell's Kitchen in the 1950s and 60s. The relationship flipped in the Brian Cody era, Kilkenny winning seven from eight between 2002 and 2014 (not including drawn 2014 final). The 2009-11 trilogy of All-Ireland finals is recalled these days as a traditionalists' nirvana, while the drawn 2014 match has gone down as perhaps as the greatest decider of them all - though Cody himself thought the defending was far too loose. The last two finals swung decisively in Tipp's direction, however. Seamus Callanan delivered a bravura performance in the 2016 decider before Bubbles O'Dwyer delivered an expletive-laden interview. Three years later, they had 14 points to spare in Liam Sheedy's first year back in the job, their forwards ruthlessly exploiting their numerical advantage in the second half after Richie Hogan's sending off for an elbow on Cathal Barrett. As it stands, Tipp still hold a 15-12 lead in the guard of honour.
Irish Daily Mirror
28-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
A crazy afternoon of hurling in Dublin with a message for the Class of 2025
IT'S June 21, the Longest Day in Dublin city. I'm standing on Hill 16 next to our household's newly minted veteran of the Leaving Cert. For him, and his Class of 2025, it is 'D-Day Plus One' in the great campaign that starts once school is out forever. But there is nothing to suggest that in little over an hour, we will both remember this sun splashed Saturday as one of our own 'Day of Days.' We are both watching as Dublin hurling captain Chris Crummey trudges from the Croke Park pitch with red flashing in his eyes. The famous words of D-Day and Band of Brothers legend, Captain Dick Winters, drift into my mind on the Clonliffe Road breeze: 'We're paratroopers we're supposed to be surrounded.' Winters was describing the regular fate of his Easy Company troops as they dug into foxholes in the Belgian town of Bastogne to fight the Battle of The Bulge. They were cut off behind enemy lines with no reinforcements, not enough ammunition and dressed in the wrong clothes for winter in northern Europe. Yet 29 days later they would be christened the 'Battered Bastards of Bastogne' by newspapers after defying impossible odds. Back in Croke Park even those odds look a little mean. The Dubs are down to 14 with an hour to play against Limerick, probably the greatest team the game has ever seen. A familiar tale is unspooling: 'We're Dublin hurlers, we're meant to be surrounded'. And then… There are those that dismiss the joining of dots from sport to the great themes of life as 'mythologised guff' and 'hyperbolised nonsense.' They would have it all reduced to GPS data analytics and performance metrics. If that was still your philosophy around 5.30pm in Croke Park last Saturday, you probably needed to check yourself for a pulse. Because here was a day made from the stuff that you can't use to populate a spreadsheet. The script that logic dictated was ripped apart. And instead we got Miracle on 34th Street meets Mission Impossible. To borrow from Monty Python, we witnessed David taking down Goliath and his big brother – with one hand tied behind his back . Hill 16 became a front row seat to watch the Christians devouring the lions in the coliseum. It was General Custer reversing the result at Little Big Horn, Davy Crocket and a band of rag-ball rovers cowboys emerging victorious at the Alamo. The Titanic taking a direct hit from an iceberg, and continuing on its way to New York while shaking a defiant fist at the starry North Atlantic night, shouting: 'Is that all you've got?' Hell, it might even have been as madly improbable as Mayo winning just once! My first experience in Croke Park was watching a 14-man Dublin team beat Offaly in a famous Leinster final with Jimmy Keaveney on the sideline. They wrote a song about it. In time they will write one about this too. Sean Brennan saving from Aaron Gillane at point blank range – like a condemned man catching the firing squad's bullet between his teeth John Hetherton accomplishing a feat of trigonometry that would have NASA scientists scratching their pointy heads, as he located the near impossible coordinates to orbit a moonshot through the narrowest of angles on its way to dock with the stanchion of the Hill 16 net. Cian O'Sullivan dispatching the killshot down the throat of the ravenous great white 'Jaws' as the stricken Dublin vessel looked surely, finally about to slip beneath the waves into the shark infested water. And a half empty Hill 16 shaking like it was September 18th, 2011, all over. High on the mad improbability of it all. Later, as we exited underneath the old railway end terrace, there came one of those spontaneous thunderbursts of sound that take on a uniquely intense quality when trapped inside the concrete husk of a great sporting arena, one that has just witnessed something the walls themselves can scarcely believe. Rolling deafening peals. 'Come On You Boys in Blue.' So often these are the moments that fuse bonds between strangers. And across the generation divide too. I first got the small ball bug working on a paper in Offaly in a previous life, in the time of Whelehan, Dooley and Pilkington. But it has been following the exploits of that next generation that has deepened a love and appreciation for the old game. As we float together from the ground I'm smiling at the memory of once offering that same Leaving Cert veteran walking beside me a plagiarised nugget of wisdom. It was intended to be used if asked to offer any thoughts in a dressing room meeting when his childhood band of brothers were facing their own small brush with seemingly insurmountable odds. As it turned out it was the exact punchline their coach and mentor had in his mind – himself a man who has done more than most to push this boulder of Dublin hurling up the mountain. The original copyright belongs to that other believer in the improbable, Nelson Mandela: 'It is always impossible. Until it is done.' This week as the Class of 2025 mark their rite of passage from those childish dressing rooms, they couldn't take a better code into the perilous world we have made for them. And they will probably never see it lived so well as on an impossibly crazy afternoon of hurling on the longest day in Dublin city.
The Irish Sun
27-06-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Dublin GAA discover outcome of Chris Crummey appeal after red card in win over Limerick put All-Ireland semi in doubt
DUBLIN have failed in their bid to have captain Chris Crummey available for their All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Cork. The Lucan Sarsfields half-back was red-carded for a 15th- minute challenge on the Treaty's Gearóid Hegarty in In an effort to clear Crummey to face the Rebels on Saturday week, his case was taken to the Central Hearings Committee. But a one-match suspension is to be served after the CHC found that ref Liam Gordon made the correct call in dismissing the All-Star nominee, who was charged with striking with the elbow with minimal force. Crummey can now consider bringing the matter to the Central Appeals Committee in a last-ditch attempt to be eligible to play a part in Dublin's quest to reach a first All-Ireland hurling final since 1951. 1 Chris Crummey was sent off against Limerick Credit: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dublin's Crummey to miss All-Ireland semi-final
Chris Crummey makes his way off the Croke Park pitch after being shown a red card during his team's win against Limerick last week [Getty Images] Dublin's Chris Crummey looks certain to miss next Saturday's All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final against Cork at Croke Park. The team captain was sent off in the 15th minute of his team's shock victory against Limerick during last Saturday's quarter-final for a high challenge on Gearoid Hegarty and was handed a one-game ban. Advertisement "Striking with elbow, with minimal force" is deemed a red card offence and carries with it a suspension for the next game under Rule 7.2 (b). On Thursday it was confirmed the Lucan man was unsuccessful in an appeal to the Central Hearings Committee on Wednesday evening, but he does have the option to take the matter to the Appeals Committee if he wishes to pursue the matter. Crummey's red card came when Limerick led by two, but the Dubs produced a stirring display thereafter, aided by second-half goals by John Hetherton and Cian O'Sullivan, to turn the championship on its head. Dublin will head into next weekend's semi-final against Munster champions and All-Ireland favourites Cork with confidence, but now almost certainly without their captain following his unsuccessful appeal.
Irish Examiner
26-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Dublin weigh up options as Chris Crummey ban upheld for All-Ireland semi-final against Cork
Dublin will consider another attempt to quash Chris Crummey's one-match suspension ruling him out of Saturday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Cork after the penalty was upheld on Wednesday. The Central Hearings Committee (CHC) adjudged that referee Liam Gordon was correct to dismiss the Dublin captain for his foul on Limerick's Gearóid Hegarty in the first half of last Saturday's All-Ireland quarter-final win. The CHC found that the infraction 'striking with elbow, with minimal force' was proven and therefore Crummey was dismissed. Dublin can now contest that decision in front of the GAA's Central Appeals Committee. Meanwhile, seven additional trains have been made available from or to Cork for the semi-final clash on July 5. Three will leave the city's Kent Station for Dublin's Heuston Station at 10am, 11am and 12pm with another departing Mallow for Heuston at 9.20am. Returning, the extra trains are timed at 8.15pm, 8.45pm and 9.35pm. Cork councillor and GAA commentator Patrick Mulcahy welcomed the additional transport services for the game. 'I would like to personally thank the staff at Iarnród Éireann for putting on these special trains for the Cork fans. 'Without the Cork fans this year, the Munster championship would have been nowhere as enjoyable to watch all because of the atmosphere the Cork fans bring to these games. I am sure Saturday week will be very much similar as the Cork fans roll into the capital to take on Dublin in the semi-final'. Read More Davy Fitzgerald: 'I'm happy with the vindication. I'm happy it's done'
