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2025 Allianz Hurling League Division 1A – Tipperary 2-25 Kilkenny 1-19

March 9 @ 1:15 pm - 3:00 pm

Tipperary defeated Kilkenny by 2-25 to 1-19 in Round 6 of the Allianz Hurling League Division 1A on Sunday March 9th at UPMC Nowlan Park Kilkenny.

Match Highlights

Four see red as Tipperary get the better of Kilkenny

Report by John Fogarty courtesy of the Irish Examiner newspaper

AHL Division 1A: Kilkenny 1-19 Tipperary 2-25

A game of hurling descended into farce in UPMC Nowlan Park as four players were sent off in 10 crazy second-half minutes.

Tipperary were the better team and moved a step closer to a Division 1 final while Kilkenny’s relegation concerns have been elevated by this third defeat watched by a 9,563 crowd.

However, the story of this game will be the dismissals, three for Kilkenny and one for Tipperary. On Thursday night, referees had been told to get tougher on head-high fouls and Seán Stack was certainly listening as he sent off three men inside six minutes for such infringements.

Tipperary’s Alan Tynan was the first to go for catching Cian Kenny high in the 43rd minute. David Blanchfield followed him off the bench when he made contact with Andrew Ormond two minutes later and then Mikey Carey, who had been booked for the aftermath of the Blanchfield-Ormond incident, was issued a straight red.

Kilkenny’s race was well and truly run when Jordan Molloy receive a second yellow card for a late foul in the 53rd minute. The Cats did manage to cut the margin to four points on the hour mark but their numerical disadvantage was always going to catch up with them and Tipperary ran out nine-point winners.

The question now is whether Kilkenny contest the Blanchfield and Carey red cards so that they might be available for next Saturday’s home game against Limerick.

Aside from the half-time scoreline which read 2-13 to 1-10 in Tipperary’s favour, the other stand-out statistics from the opening period were a wind-assisted Kilkenny not scoring from play until the 15th minute and Tipperary registering the first of only two first-half wides in the 31st minute.

Tipperary were much the slicker team, regularly finding space to exploit and were ahead for all of the 36 minutes save for a few seconds when Kilkenny strung together three points to level matters in the 18th minute.

Tipperary responded with the next five scores, the fourth of them a Craig Morgan goal in the 25th minute. Taking receipt of a Gearóid O’Connor sideline cut, Morgan’s pace was too much for Tommy Walsh to handle and his shot foiled Eoin Murphy.

Sam O’Farrell landed a point soon after to send the visitors seven ahead although Barry Hogan then had to react sharp to prevent Martin Keoghan a goal in the 29th minute.

Keoghan, who posted three first-half points, was one of the few bright sparks for Kilkenny at the time. The third of those was quickly followed by a Oisín O’Donoghue three-pointer in the 33rd minute. Darragh McCarthy showed his strength to hold off Walsh and feed O’Donoghue for the strike.

It restored Tipperary’s seven-point stretch and a Joe Caesar point from distance extended it prior to Gearóid Dunne’s 34th minute goal for Kilkenny. Cian Kenny supplied Billy Ryan whose driving run was pivotal to the attack and Dunne did the rest.

A fifth McCarthy free finished out the half for a Tipperary team who could be forgiven for thinking they would have it tougher. As it turned out, it was going to be made even easier.

Post-Match Interview with Man of the Match Tipperary’s Darragh McCarthy and Tipperary Captain Ronan Maher

Scorers for Kilkenny: T.J. Reid (0-13, 11 frees, 2 65s); G. Dunne (1-1); M. Keoghan (0-4); D. Blanchfield (0-1).

Scorers for Tipperary: D. McCarthy (0-12, 11 frees); S. O’Farrell (0-3); C. Morgan, O. O’Donoghue (1-0 each); J. McGrath, R. Maher, N. McGrath (0-2 each); A. Tynan, B. O’Mara, J. Caesar, W. Connors (0-1 each).

KILKENNY: E. Murphy; T. Walsh, M. Butler, P. Moylan; D. Blanchfield, M. Carey, P. Deegan; P. Donnelly (c), J. Molloy; M. Keoghan, C. Kenny, B. Ryan; G. Dunne, B. Drennan, T.J. Reid.
Subs for Kilkenny: J. Donnelly for B. Drennan, S. Murphy for T. Walsh, R. Reid for P. McDonald (all h-t); F. Mackessy for G. Dunne (58); Z. Bay-Hammon for C. Kenny (66).

Red cards: D. Blanchfield (straight, 45), M. Carey (straight, 49); J. Molloy (second yellow, 53).

TIPPERARY: B. Hogan; M. Breen, E. Connolly, R. Doyle; J. Caesar, R. Maher (c), B. O’Mara; C. Morgan, S. O’Farrell; O. O’Donoghue, A. Tynan, G. O’Connor; J. McGrath, J. Morris, D. McCarthy.
Subs for Tipperary: A. Ormond for O. O’Donoghue (h-t); D. Walsh for J. McGrath (52); W. Connors for J. Caesar (57); N. McGrath for G. O’Connor (64); S. Kennedy for J. Morris (70).

Red card: A. Tynan (straight, 43).

Referee: S. Stack (Dublin).

Team News

TIPPERARY (AHL v Kilkenny): B Hogan; R Doyle, E Connolly, B O’Mara; S O’Farrell, R Maher, M Breen; C Morgan, J Caesar; G O’Connor, J Morris, A Tynan; D McCarthy, J McGrath, O O’Donoghue.

Match Coverage

The game will be shown live on TG4.

Details

Date:
March 9
Time:
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm

Venue

UPMC Nowlan Park Kilkenny

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