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The Irish Sun
09-07-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
GAA make huge announcement around upcoming All-Ireland hurling final between Cork and Tipperary
THE GAA has announced that Liam Gordon will referee the All-Ireland hurling final between Cork and Tipperary on July 20. It will be the Galway native's first time taking charge of a senior decider. 2 Gordon will be the man in the middle when the two sides clash at 3.30pm on Sunday July 20 2 Tipp haven't lifted Liam MacCarthy since 2019 while 2005 was the last time it ended up on Leeside In a statement, the GAA outlined: "The GAA is delighted to confirm that Liam Gordon from Galway will be the referee for the 2025 GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final on July 20, between Cork and Tipperary, in what will be Liam's first Senior Final. "Liam is a member of the Killimor club and has also refereed the 2019 U20 final between Cork and Tipperary, the 2020 Joe McDonagh Final, the 2024 Munster Hurling Final, and the All-Ireland Senior Club Final in 2025. "In this year's Hurling Championship, Liam has refereed Clare vs. Cork and Limerick vs. Cork in the Munster Championship, Leinster Championship, Antrim vs. Dublin, along with the All-Ireland Quarter Final involving Dublin vs. Limerick. "In the Allianz League, he refereed matches between Wexford and Kilkenny, Tipperary and Cork, and Clare and Cork. Read More On GAA "The Final will be Liam's 18th Liam MacCarthy game to referee since his first in 2020. "His umpires on the day will be Damien Gibbons, Alan McClearn, John Larkin, and Ollie Reilly, all from the Killimor club. "His line umpires on the day will be Dublin's Seán Stack and Waterford's Thomas Walsh. "Seán will be the standby referee, and the Sideline Official will be Colm McDonald from Antrim. Dickie Murphy from Wexford will be the Hawk-Eye Official." Most read in GAA Hurling Tuesday also saw Premier boss Liam Cahill Noel McGrath's wide in Watch RTE pundits' contrasting reaction to full-time whistle of Tipperary's epic win over Kilkenny Believing they were three points down, the Cats chased a goal in vain before the Premier advanced to the All-Ireland final against And boss Cahill lauded the Cats for leaving it at that ahead of their July 20 showdown against the Rebels. He said: 'We know Kilkenny from the start of time are a huge hurling county and I said that afterwards. "Like ourselves, if Kilkenny don't win it on the field, they ain't going to bring it to the boardroom, that's for sure. 'For me, we were going on the scoreboard. Through Declan Laffan and the lads down the earpiece, there might have been a little query alright but for us we were playing what was in front of us. 'HUMAN ERROR' 'What can we say sure, it's human error, that's the bottom line. A mistake was made but it had no effect on us, on what we wanted to achieve at the end of the day, which was just to get the result. 'Everybody in the GAA, we do our best to try and do things voluntary and keep things as right as we can and unfortunately it was just human error. What can be done, only move on. 'It was out of our control, really. It is unfortunate. From the outset, these boys here were just concentrating on getting over the line. 'Look, you can go into all the ins and out of it, there were several other passages of play, decisions that work out throughout the 74-plus minutes. 'The reality is that's what big matches like that are made of and you just roll with the punches and you take the hits.'
Extra.ie
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Extra.ie
Kilkenny boss claims Munster final conclusion was unfair
Kilkenny's reward for a sixth Leinster hurling title in a row is a likely semi-final with Limerick – but Derek Lyng felt sympathy for the vanquished Munster giants after what he felt was an unfair end to the game. Lyng's team overcame Galway in Croke Park on Sunday, winning by eight points in front of 37,503 spectators. A largely subdued affair was in complete contrast to the drama that played out in Limerick the night before, when Cork won on penalties after extra time. Kilkenny manager Derek Lyng reacts during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship final match between Kilkenny and Limerick at Croke Park in Dublin. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile The net result is a place in the quarter-finals for Limerick, and they will be unbackable favourites to win that, against one of Dublin and Kildare. That would set them against Lyng's men in the last four. And the victorious Kilkenny manager suggested that a fairer way of deciding the match would have been a replay. 'I think it's hard on players,' he said of the penalty shoot-out. 'I know we have a new system in place and we're kind of caught for time but I just think we're a bit too caught at the minute. 'It made for a great spectacle, but I think to be fair to players, the replay would have been more fair to them.' 7 June 2025; Cork captain Robert Downey lifts the Mick Mackey Cup after his side' victory in the Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship final match between Limerick and Cork at LIT Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile Limerick will be expected to put aside that disappointment and prevail not only against the winners of Dublin and Kildare, but also Kilkenny in a semi-final. And the tepid nature of much of yesterday's Leinster decider in contrast to the pyrotechnics in the Gaelic Grounds will do nothing to temper that belief. Lyng, though, was adamant that his players have been tested properly ahead of the expected challenge to come. 'I think it's probably taken for granted that we're going to go win these games, but a huge amount of work goes into it, particularly from the players,' he said. Walter Walsh in action for Kilkenny. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile 'We lost to Wexford, and against Dublin we would have been disappointed with a spell in that game as well, and likewise today, so, regardless of who we were playing, we know we're going to have to find another gear or two for the next day, and that's the reality of it.' Galway, meanwhile, look certain to face Tipperary in a last-eight tie with the Premier County facing Laois in a preliminary quarter-final before then. Micheál Donoghue denied that the job facing him on his return to Galway is bigger than anticipated after a desperately flat display in which his side went 36 minutes without a score from play. 19 August 2018; Galway manager Micheál Donoghue and Joe Canning of Galway following the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final match between Galway and Limerick at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile Donoghue feels they are not as far behind the leading teams as many believe. 'No, I wouldn't say it's a bigger job,' he said. 'Obviously, the disappointment of today and I suppose the narrative will be that it's probably similar to previous years and previous teams. 'But look, we know what we have in the squad and we'll try and take the positives out of it as we move forward.'
