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The Irish Sun
07-07-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
‘Picture perfect audio' – Watch RTE pair Morrissey & Mullane lose their minds commentating on Tipperary wonder goal
THERE was an understandable momentary pausing of the "No cheering the press box" rule when Oisin O'Donoghue unleashed a wonder strike past Eoin Murphy. Just like viewers nationwide, 2 Even Kilkenny icon Henry Shefflin looked like he appreciated the top corner finish 2 Morrissey and Mullane's radio commentary is as fun to watch as it is to listen back to The clip was shared on The Sunday Game's Samuel hailed: "John Mullane just brings a passion to commentary on hurling. His natural gra for the game comes out." Similarly, Lurlene added: "I listened to it on the radio! Picture perfect audio portrait of what was happening." Des Cahill, Shane McGrath and Read More On GAA Caitriona praised: "Pure gold!!! Shane Mcg reaction in the background. Magical day!" There was a comparable scene Both TV pundits as well as neutral observer Ursula Jacob acknowledged that That slightly contentious decision has been completely overshadowed by another controversial moment however. Most read in GAA Hurling Human error was responsible for the scoreboard incorrectly awarding Tipperary an extra point from the 70th minute onwards. Crucially, referee James Owen did not make the same mistake. But Kilkenny players have a right to feel aggrieved considering they chased a goal unnecessarily thinking their deficit was then four points rather than three. RTE pundits weigh in on scoreboard controversy that marred Tipperary's dramatic win over Kilkenny While Kilkenny then had two attacks where firstly Eoin Cody and secondly John Donnelly needlessly went for goal from long-range. Joe Canning outlined how Kilkenny's players clearly forced the issue as they felt they were in a bigger hole than they were in actuality. Speaking about them thinking they were initially down by four immediately after McGrath's phantom point, he emphasized: "Psychologically that's huge because then you feel you have to get a goal and a point. "When you're only two points down you're thinking we can tap one over and then try and win the puck-out so you can tap another one over. "So for Kilkenny's players, psychologically, chasing three points (that late on) is way different from chasing two points." Later on in the programme Canning returned to just how vital Robert Doyle's goal-line block from Donnelly's rasping effort had been. The Galway great added: "He's lucky because if they got that goal at the end of the match, Kilkenny would've won by the referee. "Kilkenny would've been a point up yet everybody in the stadium would've thought it was a drawn match. So he saved the GAA I'd say!" GAA INVESTIGATION The GAA have launched an investigation after the incident marred what was an otherwise incredible occasion. In a statement last night, Croke Park chiefs are awaiting referee Owen's match report to get to the bottom of the confusion. It said: 'The GAA can confirm that the official score at the end of the Tipperary v Kilkenny GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final was 4-20 to 0-30. "The GAA acknowledges there was confusion over the final score. The CCCC is awaiting the full referees report in order to establish how the initial mistake occurred."
The Irish Sun
07-07-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Kilkenny will be haunted by this loss to Tipperary as even one of their main men had his worst game ever
CORK and Tipperary have the All-Ireland final they have always dreamed off. The rivalry between the counties stretches back over a century and to have them Advertisement 2 Eoin Murphy wasn't his usual imperious self when it came to shot-stopping 2 Tipperary legend Michael "Babs" Keating writes for SunSport The atmosphere in two weeks' time in the parade will be unbelievable with Croke Park heaving in blue and gold and red and white. Absolutely nobody expected Tipp to be in the final — but here they are on merit. The work that he did and the entire performance of his team deserves massive credit considering how far they have come. Advertisement Read More On GAA The ten-point loss to Cork in the NHL final was sobering, as was the 4-27 to 0-24 defeat to the Rebels in the Munster Championship. But they finished third, got the job done against Galway and showed huge resolve to beat Kilkenny yesterday. From a Tipp point of view, Darragh McCarthy's second yellow was disappointing but at least he won't miss the All-Ireland. He took his goal well, but he has a lot to learn in senior hurling. I don't like his style as a free-taker either, he missed two in the second half and Jason Forde took over then. Advertisement Most read in GAA Hurling He kind of slices the ball — Tony Kelly does it in Clare and Limerick's Aaron Gillane is similar too. But a clean strike is always best. In that regard, maybe it's best that Tipp hold McCarthy in reserve for the final given he's been sent off twice, missed frees and there's just so much at stake. RTE pundits weigh in on scoreboard controversy that marred Tipperary's dramatic win over Kilkenny As for the Cats, I'm in Kilkenny an awful lot in recent times and I have a lot of friends there — particularly hurling friends. And the hurt that Kilkenny feel when they lose to Tipperary is always massive, no matter what level it's at because the dislike that hurling people have between the counties down the years has never really gone away. Advertisement They would have preferred to have been beaten by the devil himself than to have been beaten by Tipp — so that's going to hurt and going to hurt for a long time. That result is going to set Kilkenny back an awful lot because this was the only team they had with a genuine chance of ending the ten-year famine. LAST CHANCE? Go back to last year, and their club champions Thomastown were beaten by Castletown-Geoghegan of Westmeath in the Leinster club quarter-finals. The one thing Kilkenny had is county club champions that were leaders. Whether it was Ballyhale or the Village. Advertisement The county champions always led, and captain John Donnelly was the only starting player from Thomastown on yesterday's team — and I'd say we'll never see He turns 38 this year, and he looked totally crestfallen as he left the field a decade on since his last All-Ireland. Leinster titles are all good and well, but there's only one currency that matters. Their full-forward line looked like doing real damage yesterday. But for some reason, when every section of the Kilkenny team got the ball they messed it up with short passing and ran down blind alleys. Advertisement TJ Reid got no ball in the second half and neither did Eoin Cody, even though he gave Robert Doyle a torrid time in the first. A man-on-man ball on Ronan Maher or Eoghan Connolly never came Reid's way at all and even though he scored 0-11, only two of those came from play. So many times two Kilkenny players went for the same ball with a Tipp player waiting for the break, and it cost them three of the four goals when McCarthy and Forde scored before Oisín O'Donoghue's wonder strike to win it. The golden rule, you never play the ball down the wing, on your own wing — but they did that all day. Advertisement MURPHY'S LAW Eoin Murphy had the most disappointing game I've ever seen from him in goal with all of his experience. Shipping four goals was a huge blow for him and everything was wrong about him. Kilkenny were still only beaten by two points but everything went right for Tipperary and the last goal from O'Donoghue was spectacular. Conor Stakelum was outstanding and so were the subs that came in, from Noel McGrath to Alan Tynan. Advertisement Hurling was the winner but Kilkenny were the real losers. They must have really had their heads down going home last night because they have no great prospects of ending their famine anytime soon. It's an all-Munster All-Ireland final for the second year running. And all the pressure really will be on Cork. Twenty years is a massive famine on Leeside, and they lost last year's final to Clare by a point after extra-time. They rattled seven goals past Dublin and the hype and expectancy down there now will be through the roof. Advertisement
Irish Daily Mirror
06-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
There for the taking for Kilkenny - Reid and Murphy may not get another shot
The scene at the end was like the morning after Glastonbury. There were bodies stretched out on the grass, dead to the world. Above them Tipp players embraced, smiling amongst themselves. Congratulating one another. Celebrating. As they did so, men dressed in black and amber, stared into the distance looking for something they knew they would never get. And to their left young Darragh McCarthy cried tears of joy mixed with relief. TJ Reid was mere yards away from him, staring in disbelief. Robbed. Deflated. At 37, Reid may never get back here. Nor may 35-year-old Eoin Murphy. They know they let this one slip. Two points up with a man advantage and four minutes of regulation-time remaining, the deal was waiting to be sealed. But Kilkenny couldn't find a pen to sign the contract. Tipp, on the other hand, had the ink ready to go. All the key moments belonged to them. Four goals arrived when they were needed most. The inevitable roar which followed each strike got increasingly louder as the game wore on. The noise accompanying John McGrath's opener was ear-splitting; the sounds which followed Jason Forde's and Darragh McCarthy's strikes even more powerful. But they all came in the first-half when there was time left on the clock and didn't compare to the escalating sounds as the second-half wore on. First there was the gasp when it dawned on the Tipp fans, who formed the bulk of the support, that McCarthy was getting a red card for his loose tackle on Eoin Murphy. Then there were the cheers from the minority Cats fans when Mullen and Cian Kenny put them two in front. But that didn't compare to decibel levels reached when Jason Forde landed back-to-back frees to level affairs nor when Forde landed a point from just inside the sideline to put Tipp ahead with three minutes left on the clock. 'Tipp! Tipp! Tipp!' sang their fans. They were only getting going; more drama was on the way. First came Oisin O'Donoghue's lobbed goal, Tipp making a mockery of their numerical disadvantage to go further in front. When the new kid on the block was followed by the oldest stager in town - Noel McGrath - getting credited by the scoreboard operator for a point that never was, you could have sworn the cheers from Croke Park were heard in neighbouring postcodes. Controversy followed. Was McGrath's effort wide? The scoreboard changed to suggest it was legitimate. But no white flag was raised. So the scoreboard should have stayed static. Instead it moved to 4-21. And it was not until 7.47pm when the GAA announced that the final Tipp score was 4-20. So Kilkenny mistakenly thought they were four points down when in fact they were only three. Accordindly they went for goals. First Eoin Cody did so. Then John Donnelly. Had the scoreboard not changed, would their actions have been different? Would they have tried for points? Had they done so, had they nailed those scores, could there have been a draw? Would they have won it in extra-time? A gasp could be heard among the journalists when this issue became clear. There was a burst of flashlights as Derek Lyng took his place in the press room to answer the question of whether he knew they were down by three points rather than four. Journalists shook his hand as if he was a grieving father mourning the loss of a son. He had a long face to accompany his long afternoon. Graciously he didn't make an issue of the disputed McGrath point. Hurting, yet courteous, he wished Tipp good luck. And they'll need it because whatever about the dark clouds which opened in the first half, the darkest shadow hanging over both these teams yesterday was Cork. The Rebels had 3-5 on the board after 15 minutes against Dublin; by contrast these two teams had 1-7 between them at the same juncture. Gradually both improved as the afternoon wore on. And so did the spectacle reaching that incredible crescendo at the end Tipp 'got smarter' according to their corner back, Michael Breen, when reduced to 14 men. The O'Donoghue goal on 69 minutes put them 4-20 to 0-29 ahead - a three point cushion with four minutes to play. Would it be enough? It didn't seem that way when John Donnelly slalomed his way into position to unleash a shot. There was 73 minutes and 48 seconds on the clock when the sliotar left his hurl, 73:49 when it whizzed past Rhys Shelly, the Tipp keeper. But the reason John Donnelly's name isn't in the headlines this morning is because Robert Doyle had sneaked in behind his goalkeeper, the nightwatchman doing his job. His save kept Tipp in the Championship; seconds later the final whistle beeped. And that was when we had our Glastonbury reconstruction. Doyle hugged Breen and Eoghan Connolly, his henchmen. At the other end of the field, Murphy leaned on his hurl for emotional support, a queue of Tipp players coming over to him to shake hands and offer their condolences. And right across the pitch, there were bodies strewn, Tipp players crashing to the floor with their heads in their hands, like orthodox Jews praying at the Wailing Wall. Kilkenny's crew, meanwhile, were flattened by the emotional turmoil of defeat. 'I get that,' said Breen, 'because I'm wrecked emotionally as well as physically. That was some game.' It was. The sequel in a fortnight's time against Cork could be even better.
Irish Daily Mirror
06-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
GAA fans all asking the same question after Kilkenny v Tipperary incident
Kilkenny and Tipperary battled it out in a fantastic All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday afternoon at Croke Park. There was plenty of needle between the sides, particularly in the second half. Tipperary were reduced to 14 men when Darragh McCarthy was shown a second yellow card for a challenge on Kilkenny goalkeeper Eoin Murphy. But many fans felt Kilkenny should also have been reduced to 14 men for a challenge on Andrew Ormond with a few minutes of the second half to go. Mikey Carey was shown a yellow card for the challenge, but replays appeared to show it was the hurl of Paddy Deegan that connected with the helmet of Ormond. A number of people took to social media to have their say on the decision, with one person saying: "Any hurley that makes contact with helmet is a straight red card." Another said: "That's some joke, Andy Ormond hit in the back of the head with the Hurley, had to be a red card." Someone else asked: "How has James Owens not given a red card there?" One other person stated: "He's made contact with the head … how is it not a red card? The biggest issue hurling has at the moment is the inconsistency in the application of basic rules." Tipperary ran out winners by 4-20 to 0-30 and will now face Munster rivals Cork in the decider back at Croke Park on Sunday, July 20.
Irish Examiner
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Interprovincial teams named ahead of matches at Knightsbrook
The Men's and Women's Interprovincial teams have been announced ahead of the matches at Knightsbrook next week (2-4 July). The Leinster Men's team will aim for a fourth title in a row, with a strong line-up that includes West of Ireland Champion Dylan Holmes (Greystones), Munster Stroke Play runner-up Eoin Murphy (Dundalk), and East of Ireland runner-up Robert Abernethy (Dun Laoghaire). They are joined by returning members of the 2024 title-winning team, Paul Coughlan (Castleknock) and Keith Egan (Carton House). Valerie Clancy (Killarney), Clodagh Coughlan (Douglas), Mairead Martin (Kanturk), Caitlin Shippam (Ballykisteen) and Aideen Walsh (Lahinch) make their return to the title winning Munster side while Leinster over 18 Women's Championship runner up Karen O'Neill (Douglas) and Aoife Ni Thuama (Douglas) round out their team. Reigning Connacht Men's Stroke Play Open Champion Cian O'Connor (Roscommon) and 2024 Irish Intervarsity Champion Simon Walker (Roscommon) make the Connacht men's side looking for glory for the first time since 2021. The Ulster Women's team will look to reclaim the crown they lost last season with a line up that includes Ulster Women's Stroke Play Champion Katie Poots (Knock) and the in-form Molly O'Hara (Clandeboye). Leinster Men Robert Abernethy (Dun Laoghaire), Paul Coughlan (Castleknock), Gerard Dunne (Co. Louth), Keith Egan (Carton House), Dylan Holmes (Greystones), Dylan Keating (Seapoint), David Lally (Blainroe), Eoin Murphy (Dundalk) Captain: Harry McAlinden (Bray) Manager: Ian Mooney (Wicklow) Leinster Women Helena Burke (Carlow), Ella Cantwell (Esker Hills), Kate Fleming (Elm Park), Jenny Maguire (Foxrock), Rachael McDonnell (Elm Park), Emily Murray (Co. Louth), Ellen O'Gorman (Laytown & Bettystown). Captain: Orla Darcy (Naas) Manager: Leigh Bolger (Carlow) Munster Men Jordan Boles (Charleville), Morgan Cain (Cork), Darragh Flynn (Carton House), Conor Hickey (Dooks), David Howard (Fota Island), Barry O'Connell (Douglas), David Reddan (Nenagh), Robert Walsh (Douglas). Captain: Fred Twomey Manager: Diarmuid Linehan (Muskerry) Munster Women Valerie Clancy (Killarney), Clodagh Coughlan (Douglas), Mairead Martin (Kanturk), Aoife Ni Thuama (Douglas), Karen O'Neill (Douglas), Caitlin Shippam (Ballykisteen), Aideen Walsh (Lahinch) Captain: Mary Dowling (Mallow) Manager: Sinead Enright (Macroom) Connacht Men Aodhagan Brady (Co. Sligo), Harry Gillivan (Portmarnock), Allan Hill (Roscommon), David Kitt (Athenry), Cian O'Connor (Roscommon), Luke O'Neill (Connemara), David Shiel (Enniscrone), Simon Walker (Roscommon) Captain: Rory O'Connor (Strandhill) Manager: Cathal McConn (Roscommon) Connacht Women Shannon Burke (Ballinrobe), Sophie Leonard-Dodd (Enniscrone), Aoife Kelly (Galway Bay), Ellen Lonergan (Westport), Maebh McLoughlin (Co. Sligo), Julie O'Gara (Grange), Sophie Reynolds (Co. Sligo) Captain: Enda Lonergan (Westport) Manager: Jacqui McGrath (Tuam) Ulster Men Adam Buchanan (Royal Portrush), Fionn Dobbin (Malone), Lewis Gowdy (Bangor), Ryan Griffin (Ballybofey & Stranorlar), Darcy Hogg (Belvoir Park), Luke Kelly (Dunfanaghy), Ross Latimer (Knock), Oscar Murphy (Royal Portrush) Captain: Peter Waddell (Knock) Ulster Women Aoife Browne (Portsalon) Louise Coffey (Malone) Kate Dwyer (Rossmore) Holly Hamilton (Belvoir Park) Molly O'Hara (Clandeboye) Katie Poots (Knock) Zoe Miller (Royal Belfast) Captain: Oonagh McClure (Malone) Manager: Deirdre Savage (Balmoral).
