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2024 Allianz Hurling League Division 1B – Tipperary 2-27 Dublin 0-22

February 3 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Tipperary defeated Dublin by 2-27 to 0-22 in Round 1 of the Allianz Hurling League Division 1B on Saturday February 3rd at Parnell Park Dublin.

Match Highlights

Tipperary ease past Dublin to start league on right note

Tipperary 2-27 Dublin 0-22

Report by Paul Keane for the Irish Examiner newspaper

A useful trip to the capital for Tipperary who took the Allianz League points with relative ease, looked at 20 different players and had 13 different scorers.

Sean Ryan and Jake Morris struck the second-half goals while free-taker Gearoid O’Connor impressed with a dozen points overall.

Morris was quiet initially though came strongly in the game in the final quarter and reeled off 1-2 in a row at one stage, and 1-4 in total, to repel a Dublin fight-back.

Dublin, trailing by eight points at half-time, got the deficit down to just four points with 15 minutes or so to go but never truly looked like pulling off an upset win over last season’s semi-finalists.

Micheal Donoghue presumably targeted an early win at fortress Parnell Park to ignite their own bid for at least a top-three finish but without key players like Donal Burke and Eoghan O’Donnell the Dubs were comfortably beaten.

They’ll head to Antrim next Sunday in search of a belated win while Tipp will expect an even greater challenge at home to Galway in Thurles on the same afternoon.

Both counties bowed out of last year’s Championship on the same day in late June at the All-Ireland quarter-final stage.

Tipp retained just six starters – Rhys Shelly, new captain Ronan Maher, Bryan O’Mara, Eoghan Connolly, Alan Tynan and Morris – from that two-point loss to Galway.

They were missing the retired Seamus Callanan along with key figures like Jason Forde, Cathal Barrett, Michael Breen, Dan McCormack and Noel McGrath.

As for Dublin, they were down a number of established stars too with All-Star nominated forward Burke still recovering from injury and no signs of O’Donnell, Danny Sutcliffe, Cian Boland or former Cork senior Chris O’Leary either.

Boss Donoghue was still able to start eight of the players that lined out in last June’s heavy Championship defeat to Clare.

There were first league starts for Mark Grogan and Darragh Power in defence as well as midfielder Brian Hayes and highly rated corner-forward Diarmaid O Dulaing.

A decent home crowd turned out at the Donneycarney venue but the Sky Blues faithful endured a subdued start from the hosts as Tipp surged 0-6 to 0-1 ahead with only seven minutes on the clock.

The visitors capitalised on the stiff breeze behind them and the pick of the early points was goalkeeper Shelly’s bomb from inside his own 45-metre line.

By half-time, Tipp had 10 different scorers though free-taker O’Connor accounted for seven of their scores and the majority of the rest were long-range strikes.

Wing-back Bryan O’Mara and both midfielders Willie Connors and Eoghan Connolly split the posts as inside forwards like Andrew Ormond and Ryan were left craving more possession.

Still, it was a mightily effective game plan and while Dublin improved in the second-half with Cian O’Sullivan their brightest performer, they still hit the interval trailing by eight points, 0-17 to 0-9.

Dublin had a half chance for a goal in the 32nd minute when O Dulaing sneaked the ball beyond the goalkeeper but Craig Morgan got back to clear the danger. Morgan got on the scoresheet also for Tipp with another monster score from the left wing that summed up just how the Premier used the elements to their advantage.

Dublin took an extra few minutes at half-time and had to be whistled back out by referee Shane Hynes.

Whatever Donoghue said to them at the break, the 2011 league winners showed more cut and trust straight away and pulled back immediate points from O’Sullivan and O Dulaing.

O’Sullivan drilled two more efforts wide before cutting the gap to six with a 42nd minute point.

Tipp responded with a real sucker punch – a 44th minute Ryan goal when he turned away from his marker Paddy Smyth and blasted to the bottom corner.

But it was against the run of play and Dublin proceeded to score six of the game’s next seven points to cut the deficit to just four points, 1-19 to 0-18.

Fergal Whitely proved a useful impact substitute and drilled two points.

Tipp’s second goal in the 58th minute from Morris, and 1-2 in total from the Nenagh man in a three-minute blitzkrieg, settled the game though and Dublin never threatened another comeback after that.

Tipperary scorers: Gearoid O’Connor 0-12 (0-8f, 0-1 65, 0-1 s/l), Jake Morris 1-4, Sean Ryan 1-0, Eoghan Connolly 0-2, Rhys Shelly 0-1 (0-1f), Willie Connors 0-1, Bryan O’Mara 0-1, Conor Bowe 0-1, Craig Morgan 0-1, Alan Tynan 0-1, John McGrath 0-1, Andrew Ormond 0-1, Joe Fogarty 0-1.

Dublin scorers: Cian O’Sullivan 0-11 (0-8f, 0-1 s/l), Fergal Whitely 0-3, Conor Burke 0-2, Sean Currie 0-2, Brian Hayes 0-1, Jake Malone 0-1, Diarmaid O Dulaing 0-1, Paul Crummey 0-1.

TIPPERARY: Rhys Shelly; Craig Morgan, Ronan Maher, Johnny Ryan; Bryan O’Mara, Robert Byrne, Conor Bowe; Willie Connors, Eoghan Connolly; Gearoid O’Connor, John McGrath, Alan Tynan; Jake Morris, Sean Ryan, Andrew Ormond.
Subs: Mark Kehoe for McGrath 52, Darragh Stakelum for Tynan 56, Barry Heffernan for Connolly 61, Joe Fogarty for Connors 64, Patrick Maher for Ormond 69.

DUBLIN: Eddie Gibbons; Mark Grogan, Paddy Smyth, John Bellew; Darragh Power, Conor Donohoe, Daire Gray; Conor Burke, Brian Hayes; Jake Malone, Ronan Hayes, Sean Currie; Cian O’Sullivan, Diarmaid O Dulaing, Paul Crummey.
Subs: James Madden for Grogan 25, Fergal Whitely for Ronan Hayes 34, Davy Keogh for Malone 44, Sean Gallagher for Currie 58.

Referee: Shane Hynes (Galway).

Match Coverage

This game will be shown live on TG4.

Team News

DUBLIN (AHL v Tipperary): E Gibbons; M Grogan, P Smyth, J Bellew; D Power, C Donohoe, D Gray; C Burke, J Malone; B Hayes, R Hayes, S Currie; D Ó Dúlaing, C O’Sullivan, P Crummey.

TIPPERARY: (AHL v Dublin): R Shelly; J Ryan, R Maher, C Morgan; B O’Mara, R Byrne, C Bowe; W Connors, E Connolly; G O’Connor, J McGrath, A Tynan; A Ormond, J Morris, S Ryan.

Details

Date:
February 3
Time:
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Venue

Parnell Park Dublin

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