25-05-2025
Munster Hurling championship: Cork too strong for Waterford, Limerick hammered
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Welcome to GAA championship live blog with hurling's Munster and Leinster championships the main focus of today's action.
It promises to be another day of drama. Follow all the action around the grounds here.
Live scores:
Leinster SHC (2.0)
Wexford 2-19 Kilkenny 1-15 (full-time)
Dublin 3-15 Galway 0-29 (full-time)
Offaly 3-15 Antrim 1-16 (full-time)
Munster SHC (4.0)
Clare 3-20 Limerick 0-24 (full-time)
Cork 2-25 Waterford 1-22 (full-time)
Munster Ladies SFC final (2.30)
Kerry 2-6 Waterford 0-10 (full-time)
Connacht Ladies SFC final (1.0)
Galway 0-16 Mayo 1-4 (full-time)
Ulster MFC final (5.15)
Cavan v Tyrone
2 minutes ago
Colm Keys in Páirc Uí Chaoimh:
Cork.........2-25
Waterford....1-22
Cork lived dangerously against Waterford before securing safe passage to a Munster hurling final with Limerick in just under two weeks' time.
After the 16-point beating they took against Limerick in the previous round the Rebels needed a response but it only came in fits and starts and was far from the fluent response they might have expected in Supervalu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Ultimately it was a four-minute period towards the end of the third quarter when they scored 1-4 without reply that got the job done for a first Munster final in seven years.
Patrick Horgan got the goal after being put in by Brian Hayes who had got the first goal at the beginning of the second half when Tim O'Mahony blocked down Paddy Leavey and sent Darragh Fitzgibbon tearing down the left flank to put Hayes in.
But even those goals provided a relatively thin cushion as Waterford kept coming back and got a bounce of their own through a Stephen Bennett goal in the 58th minute.
But the closest Waterford could get was a goal and Cork, backed by the wind in the second half, always had the artillery to steer clear,despite recording 17 wides and dropping three more short throughout this final round fixture.
For Waterford it is more despair. They have yet to escape the round robin format in six attempts and for the fourth successive year they won't be hurling in June, a setback for the county after such a strong start in taking down All-Ireland champions Clare.
Ahead by 0-13 to 0-12 at the break after playing into the wind in the first half - Cork lost the toss - the home side had to be relatively happy with that position.
Waterford were lucky that Darragh Lyons wasn't sent off for striking out at Shane Barrett, catching him in the face. Clearly referee Johnny Murphy, who was close to the incident, deemed it a push.
But they kept at it even when Cork looked like stretching clear with Sean Walsh causing the Cork defence, in which Sean O'Donoghue, Ciaran Joyce and Mark Coleman were superb, plenty of trouble.
12 minutes ago
Ryan Taylor scored 2-2 for Clare as they salvaged some pride to beat Limerick and record their first win of the campaign. But Limerick are through to the Munster final regardless.
14 minutes ago
Cork's Ciaran Joyce is named man-of-the-match.
"It was a very tough game. At half-time, we were happy enough and we built on it in the second half," he says.
"We were very disappointed with last week. We only played to 50% of what we can. Thankfully, we can look forward to a Munster final now in two weeks."
17 minutes ago
Cork win by six, booking their place in the Munster final. It took them a while to get into their groove, but goals from Brian Hayes and Patrick Horgan saw them through.
Waterford fail to progress through the round-robin once again.
23 minutes ago
Diarmuid Healy responds for Cork, showing his pace to cut through before scoring off the hurl.
24 minutes ago
Stephen Bennett cuts Cork's lead to three with another free.
25 minutes ago
Stephen Bennett scores a free won by Aussie Gleeson, cutting the lead back to four.
27 minutes ago
Shane Kingston puts Cork five clear, but Stephen Bennett scores a free to bring the gap back to four. Five minutes left.
31 minutes ago
Aussie Gleeson comes on for Sean Walsh Waterford, bringing another huge roar from the crowd.
32 minutes ago
Jack Prendergast follows up the goal with another point for Waterford after Stephen Bennett was denied by the post. Three points in it now.
34 minutes ago
Goal for Waterford.
Stephen Bennett shows his enduring class, winning a ball-in off Eoin Downey before smashing low and hard into the net. Game on again.
42 minutes ago
Brian Hayes and Shane Barrett hit points increasing the lead to eight, with Cork kicking for home.
42 minutes ago
Cork hit their second goal. Millerick plays a great ball into Hayes who cuts through the middle and lays off to Horgan. He smashes it into the far corner, putting Cork six ahead.
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44 minutes ago
Diarmuid Healy comes on for Cork for Brian Roche.
48 minutes ago
The wides are racking up for Cork, who have hit 11 to Waterford's four. But tey still lead by three.
