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Irish Daily Mirror
10 hours ago
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- Irish Daily Mirror
Kilkenny v Galway LIVE score updates from the Leinster hurling final
For the ninth time since 2009, Kilkenny and Galway are meeting in the Leinster Hurling final. Galway were welcomed into the Leinster fold in 2009, and they have proven to be Kilkenny's biggest challengers in the provincial championship. But after consecutive victories for Galway in 2017 and 2018, Kilkenny have reasserted their dominance and are seeking a sixth Leinster title in a row. This match has had added spice in recent years, with the frosty handshake between Brian Cody and then-Galway boss Henry Shefflin going down in the annals. And Galway will be hoping that the return of Micheal Donoghue, who guided them to the 2017 All-Ireland title, will be the catalyst for them regaining power in Leinster. The match is scheduled for a 4pm throw-in at Croke Park, and you can follow all the action right here on Irish Mirror Sport. RTE Two will also have live coverage of the game and it can be streamed on the RTE Player. Kilkenny: E. Murphy; M Butler, H Lawlor, T Walsh; M Carey, R Reid, P Deegan; C Kenny, J Molloy; J Donnelly, A Mullen, B Ryan; S Donnelly, TJ Reid, M Keoghan. Subs: A Tallis, P Moylan, D Blanchfield, S Murphy, K Doyle, Z Bay Hammond, F Mackessy, H Shine, L Hogan, L Connellan, M Murphy. Galway: E Murphy; P Mannion, Daithí Burke, F Burke; C Fahy, G Lee, TJ Brennan; S Linnane, David Burke; J Fleming, C Mannion, T Monaghan; C Whelan, B Concannon, K Cooney. Subs: D Walsh, D Morrissey, J Grealish, J Ryan, D Loftus, R Glennon, C Cooney, T Killeen, A Burns, C Molloy, J Flynn. Hello and welcome to live coverage as Kilkenny take on Galway in the Leinster Hurling Final. Hurling fans will be hoping for a similar spectacle to last night's Munster Final but the likelihood of which is incredibly low. In the same way that Limerick were chasing seven Munster titles in a row, Kilkenny have had a stranglehold of this competition and chasing a sixth successive title. Today's game throws in at 4 pm at Croke Park with RTE Two showing live coverage of the game and it is available to stream on the RTE Player. We will have live coverage of the game here on the Irish Mirror.
Irish Independent
3 days ago
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- Irish Independent
‘I'll be honest, you can't stop him. I don't think you can stop the great players' – Cork boss Pat Ryan on Cian Lynch
Henry Shefflin is the only player to win Hurler of the Year three times but Cian Lynch could match him this summer.
Irish Independent
3 days ago
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- Irish Independent
‘I'll be honest, you can't stop him. I don't think you can stop the great players' – Cork boss on Cian Lynch
Henry Shefflin is the only player to win Hurler of the Year three times but Cian Lynch could match him this summer.
Irish Times
21-05-2025
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- Irish Times
Micheál Donoghue leads Galway back to Dublin for make-or-break duel
The Micheál Donoghue derby gets its latest everything-on-the-line airing this weekend when Galway and Dublin meet in the decisive final round of games in the Leinster senior hurling championship . In the corresponding fixture in 2019 Dublin eliminated Galway from the championship following a 3-19 to 0-24 win at Parnell Park, a result that also ultimately marked the end of Donoghue's first spell in charge of the Tribesmen. Then just 12 months ago Donoghue masterminded a Dublin victory over his native Galway at Pearse Stadium – a feisty encounter in which David Burke was sent off and members of both management teams were involved in heated exchanges. That 2-27 to 1-24 victory propelled Dublin to a Leinster final while the result dumped Galway out of the championship and would prove to be Henry Sheffin's last game at the helm. READ MORE Some 14 weeks later Galway announced Donoghue was returning for a second stint as manager of the Tribesmen. The Clarinbridge clubman had been appointed Dublin hurling manager for a three-year term but stepped away after two seasons and immediately filled the vacancy left by Shefflin in Galway. Donoghue returns to Parnell Park on Sunday for the first time since leaving the capital's hurlers, with the round-five clash essentially a playoff for a Leinster final spot. His record in total (Walsh Cup, National League, championship) as a manager in Galway-Dublin games reads: Won six, lost six, drew one. Michael Donoghue shakes hands with Dublin's Mattie Kenny after a costly defeat in 2019. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho He was Galway boss for eight of those 13 matches – winning five and losing three. As Dublin manager he won one, lost three and drew one. And while that championship victory over Galway last summer was the outstanding result of his tenure with Dublin, the 2019 Leinster SHC win in Parnell Park probably resonates more with Dublin hurling folk. With Wexford and Kilkenny drawing on that same night, all four teams finished the group with five points, but Galway were eliminated on scoring difference. Alan Nolan was the Dublin goalkeeper that evening six summers ago. 'As a team we hadn't really beaten anybody of note,' recalls Nolan. 'We had beaten Laois and Carlow and so on but we hadn't managed to get a victory against one of the really top teams. 'We had run Kilkenny close at Parnell Park in 2018 but just didn't come out on top so there was a feeling if we lost again it would be one of those things that would follow us around, 'You can't beat anybody of note in an important game'. 'It was driven by the team, Mattie Kenny was the Dublin manager at the time and so there was that Galway attachment and the possibility of Mattie putting his own county out, so the players themselves really decided we needed to go out and take a big scalp. 'Galway were one of the best teams in the country, they had won the All-Ireland in 2017 and were beaten in the final in 2018, so it was a big game for us.' Dublin's Seán Moran scores a goal from a penalty against Galway at Parnell Park in 2019. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho Oisín O'Rorke was faultless from frees that evening while Eamonn Dillon, Seán Moran and Chris Crummey scored the all-important goals. Midway through the second half, and with Dublin trailing by one, Nolan drilled over the score of the game, a sensational point hit from between his own 20- and 45-metre lines. 'It was one of those scores that when you look back at it, if you missed you would have been the worst in the world because Conal Keaney was out in front of me all on his own, so thankfully it went over,' recalls the 2014 All-Star nominated goalkeeper. The final whistle in 2019 was greeted with a pitch invasion. 'I remember people coming up and saying, 'You have knocked Galway out of the championship' but we didn't care, all we were interested in was that we got a result for ourselves,' continues Nolan. The St Brigid's clubman is delighted to see Dublin playing their home matches at Parnell Park again. 'Dublin played some of their games under Micheál in Croke Park but Niall Ó Ceallacháin has the lads back in Parnell Park and you can see they are relishing playing there,' says Nolan. 'You could see the atmosphere for the games against Offaly and Wexford, so I think it is all set up for a great game this Sunday. 'There is all that stuff in the background with Micheál coming back to Dublin and after putting Galway out last year too. So there are plenty of sideshows but I would imagine the lads will be leaving all that aside and just trying to get a result that hopefully sees Dublin progress to the Leinster final.'
Irish Examiner
10-05-2025
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- Irish Examiner
Wexford test has knockout potential for uncertain Galway
The beginning of the end. What was true for one Galway manager could become a turbulent reality for his successor this afternoon. The beginning of the end for Henry Shefflin was last year's Leinster Round 3 defeat to Wexford. The beginning of the end for Micheál Donoghue's first season back would be Leinster Round 3 defeat to Wexford. Anthony Daly began the Leinster segment on this week's Irish Examiner hurling pod by declaring that the losers in Salthill 'are probably out of contention for the Leinster final and scrambling for third'. TJ Ryan went further. His declaration was that the 'loser is not going to qualify unless they do something special in the final rounds'. Former Galway insert-any-position-on-the-field Johnny Coen is with Ryan. His declaration on Galway Bay FM is that Saturday in Salthill is 'knockout'. The hosts, he added, 'simply have to get the win'. What was once a maroon-owned fixture is now a fixture laced with trepidation. Galway are as unsure about this fixture as they are themselves. Up to the 2010 Leinster quarter-final, the westerners had never scored a championship win over Wexford. Seven meetings, six defeats, and one 1976 All-Ireland semi-final stalemate at the freshly repainted Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Their entry into Leinster saw that relationship perform a Rhys McClenaghan flip. It was Galway's turn to go seven games unbeaten against the Model County. Included in the sequence was a 13-point thumping in 2020 and the 0-24 to 2-12 victory only two years ago. There are four big beasts in Leinster. Kilkenny might be going for six-in-a-row in the province, but you wouldn't know that from looking at their round-robin record. There's been only one iteration of the current format - 2018 - where all four didn't take points off each other. There's taking points, though, and there's actually bettering a fellow big beast. For Galway, it is over two years since they've taken down one of Dublin, Kilkenny, or Wexford. That aforementioned six-point win at home to Wexford on April 22, 2023, represents the last occasion of such. There have, in the interim, been stalemate encounters with Dublin and Kilkenny, twice, but rather telling of the slippage out west, they've lost their last three outings against the other three. And by a combined total of 26 points too. Maybe that's why there's a strong degree of belief being packed in with the tea and sandwiches in the southeast this morning. 'I'm so confident about this, it's not even funny,' said former Model defender, Richie Kehoe, on the Wexford Hurling podcast. 'I think from two to seven in the Galway team that they have absolutely no pace in their backs.' That Galway defence has had to be rearranged for the red card issued to five-time All-Star Daithí Burke in Tullamore. They suffered for his absence at Nowlan Park, and with Jack O'Connor and Conor McDonald returning to the Wexford matchday panel, they're open to suffering for his absence here too. Conor Whelan, though a constant on the field, has been absent in other ways. In that desperate hammering by Kilkenny, Whelan, along with Brian Concannon and Declan McLoughlin, was part of an inside line that managed just four shots and two points between them. By contrast at the far end, Eoin Cody alone had six shots for 1-3 from play. Whelan's solitary white flag at Nowlan Park was the same as the solitary white flag that he contributed in the championship defeats to Dublin and Wexford last year. There was only a solitary white flag too in the League semi-final tanking against Cork that preceded the Nowlan Park disaster. His form and confidence have been symptomatic of the wider malaise. Management's attempted corrective action was to bring the 11-season Whelan out to the half-forward line, for spells, against Offaly. Shane O'Neill attempted to make a No.11 out of Whelan during the county's short stay in the 2021 championship. Is Donoghue contemplating some sort of similar redeployment? In a forward unit where half - Tiernan Killeen, John Fleming, and Colm Molloy - are newcomers, it is stating the terribly obvious that the more experienced hands such as 28-year-old Whelan have a responsibility to perform a degree of leading. Cathal Mannion and his 1-9 total from play against Kilkenny and Offaly has been the sole individual in that column of late. Johnny Coen thought Whelan looked 'energised' around the middle against Offaly. Cyril Farrell went further. He viewed his performance against Offaly as Whelan announcing himself as 'back'. 'It is great to see him back, we all know he is a great hurler. For his own sake, twas lovely to see him back again. We need another big one the next day, but once he's back, he'll roar on and he'll have a good season,' said the All-Ireland winning manager. Galway are going home today. They haven't been home since the February 8 League win over Clare. They haven't won a meaningful championship game at home since April 2023. The consequences of that run being extended were spelled out by former Galway boss, John McIntyre, in this week's Connacht Tribune. 'The last place the Tribesman would want to be is in Parnell Park for the final round of group matches trying to preserve their championship hopes. That could be decisive motivation on Saturday.'
