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2025 Munster Senior Hurling Championship – Tipperary 2-23 Limerick 2-23

April 20 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Tipperary and Limerick played out a 2-23 to 2-23 draw in Round 1 of the Munster Senior Hurling Championship on Sunday April 20th at FBD Semple Stadium Thurles.

Match Highlights

Tipperary and Limerick roll with the punches to share spoils in Munster thriller

Report by Eoghan Cormican courtesy of the Irish Examiner newspaper

Munster SHC: Tipperary 2-23 Limerick 2-23

No winner here either. Not one winner on Munster’s opening afternoon. Easy make the argument, though, that Tipp are the happiest of the four this Easter Sunday teatime.

Limerick came to puzzle and muddle their hosts. And this was even before proceedings got underway. William O’Donoghue at centre-back. Kyle Hayes to centre-forward. David Reidy to the inside line. Adam English, wearing No.15, out to midfield. No lies told about Nickie Quaid, he started between the sticks.

Tipp were in puzzle-solving form. They were in disruptive humour. Limerick were not ruffled by the three-point half-time deficit and the Tipp momentum it stirred. Within four minutes of the restart, a three-point deficit was a two-point lead. Tipp’s momentum no longer stirred, now shaken. 1-3 to 0-1 for the men in green. Shane O’Brien’s goal was rooted in superb William O’Donoghue fetching further back.

In the recurring theme of the afternoon, Tipp had a championship answer. That has rarely been the case in recent years. Craig Morgan to John McGrath on 41 minutes. Tipp goal.

A pair from Gillane and a Tom Morrissey strike we’ve been looking at for the past seven years quickly cancelled out the major. Tipp would need to find further answers. They did.

Noel McGrath squeezed over a peach from an impossible angle. Younger brother John squeezed in a second goal on 63 minutes to edge Cahill’s men two in front, 2-22 to 2-20, on 63 minutes.

They’d score only once more across the remaining 11 minutes. That was Darragh McCarthy’s eighth of the afternoon to level matters in the fourth minute of injury-time.

In the interim, green confidence and muscle memory created chance after chance. Not all were taken that should have been. Adam English enjoyed the world of possession. He didn’t always enjoy a functioning radar, though. Gillane (free) and Byrnes brought them level. Then Gillane brought them in front. They will absolutely be disappointed not to have held out.

Tipp started the fight. They then took the fight. The former without the latter amounted to an empty threat. The hosts came with a loaded weapon. More assault rifle than pistol, mind, such was the heavy Easter Sunday that was in it.

The fight had started before Thomas Walsh fired in the sliotar. Robert Doyle and David Reidy. Michael Breen and Aaron Gillane. Eoghan Connolly and Shane O’Brien. Match-ups turned square-ups. Limerick’s inside threats and Tipp’s last line of protection were engaging in their own brand of meet and green.

Walsh went down to sort out all the chest-puffing. As he did, Limerick’s half-forward line and Tipp’s half-backs began to dance and entangle. Nobody standing down. Nobody standing back.

There were two minutes and 50 seconds when Nickie Quaid took possession is his hand for the first time. He put the sliotar into the palm of Gearóid Hegarty. Adam English finished the play with a white flag. The cruciate rupture had done no harm to the precision of the Limerick No.1. His second restart went to the far Ryan Stand side and similarly into the paw of Cian Lynch.

Tipp fell behind for the first time 17 minutes in. An Aaron Gillane flick to Adam English. An Adam English flick beyond the advancing Barry Hogan. English finished the half with 1-2. Said he to Darragh McCarthy at the far end, you’re not the only man making his first championship start capable of influence.

Jake Morris and McCarthy (free) pointed in the minutes after the goal to restore parity. 1-6 to 0-9.

Gillane, half-back Colin Coughlan, and a Gearóid Hegarty Hawkeye-approved effort shoved Limerick two back in front on the half-hour mark. 1-10 to 0-11.

Tipp had started the fight. They now had to take the fight again. They swung for five unanswered points from the 32nd minute to the break. Three of those were booming frees from No.3 Eoghan Connolly. The actions of Robert Doyle and Ronan Maher to win two of those frees lifted the locals. They were lifted higher again when, on 38 minutes, Diarmuid Byrnes was blocked, Cian Lynch was forcibly turned over, and Craig Morgan pointed.

Tipp three to the good. 0-16 to 1-10. Their greatest lead of the half. The perfect finish to the half. Tipp threatening the result no one countenanced.

They didn’t quite pull off said shock. Then again, how many of us were countenancing Limerick returning back down the road with anything other than two points.

Liam Cahill is still searching for that first win over Limerick as Tipp boss. This was his sixth time running into Kiely’s side. A second draw rather than fifth defeat. He’ll take that. They all will. Back to Cork next week. Confidence restored.

Scorers for Tipperary: D McCarthy (0-8, 0-5 frees); J McGrath (2-1); E Connolly (0-4 frees), J Morris (0-4 each); B O’Mara, C Morgan, A Tynan, J Forde, S Kennedy, N McGrath (0-1 each).

Scorers for Limerick: A Gillane (0-7, 0-4 frees); S O’Brien (1-4); A English (1-2); D Byrnes (0-3, 0-2 frees); K Hayes (0-2); C Coughlan, B Nash, C Lynch, G Hegarty, T Morrissey (0-1 each).

TIPPERARY: B Hogan; E Connolly, R Doyle, M Breen; J Caesar, R Maher, B O’Mara; C Morgan, S O’Farrell; A Tynan, J Morris, D Stakelum; J McGrath, J Forde, D McCarthy.
SUBS: N McGrath for Caesar (42); C Bowe for Forde (51); S Kennedy for D Stakelum (52); C Stakelum for Tynan (68); S Kenneally for J McGrath (70).

LIMERICK: N Quaid; B Nash, M Casey, B Murphy; D Byrnes, W O’Donoghue, C Coughlan; C Lynch, A English; G Hegarty, K Hayes, T Morrissey; A Gillane, D Reidy, S O’Brien.
SUBS: A O’Conor for Morrissey (50); P Casey for Hegarty (59).

Referee: T Walsh (Waterford).

First Half Goal for Limerick by Adam English

Fixture Details

Sunday April 20th
2025 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Round 1
Tipperary v Limerick
Venue: FBD Semple Stadium Thurles at 4pm
Referee: Thomas Walsh (Waterford)
Live on GAA+
(preceded by the Munster Senior Camogie Championship Quarter-Final – Tipperary v Limerick at 2pm)

Ticket Information

Adult Stand – €35
Adult Terrace – €30
Student / OAP Stand – €30
Student / OAP Terrace – €25
Juvenile (U16) Stand – €5
Juvenile (U16) Terrace – €5

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Team News

TIPPERARY: Barry Hogan; Robert Doyle, Eoghan Connolly, Michael Breen; Joe Caesar, Ronan Maher, Bryan O’Mara; Craig Morgan, Darragh Stakelum; Alan Tynan, Jake Morris, Sam O’Farrell; Darragh McCarthy, John McGrath, Jason Forde.
Subs: Rhys Shelly, Conor Bowe, Willie Connors, Sean Kenneally, Seamus Kennedy, Brian McGrath, Noel McGrath, Andrew Ormond, Gearoid O’Connor, Johnny Ryan, Conor Stakelum.

LIMERICK: Nickie Quaid; Barry Murphy, Michael Casey, Barry Nash; Diarmaid Byrnes, Kyle Hayes, Colin Coughlan; William O’Donoghue, Cian Lynch; Gearoid Hegarty, David Reidy, Cathal O’Neill; Aaron Gillane, Shane O’Brien, Adam English.
Subs: Shane Dowling, Peter Casey, Sean Finn, Ethan Hurley, Dan Morrissey, Tom Morrissey, Aidan O’Connor, Fergal O’Connor, Donnacha Ó Dálaigh, Darragh O’Donovan, Paddy O’Donovan.

Details

Date:
April 20
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Venue

FBD Semple Stadium Thurles

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