All-Ireland Preliminary Hurling Championship Quarter Final; Cork v Offaly; The Details;
HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP SET FOR PRELIMINARY QUARTER-FINALS
Kilkenny and Limerick are through to the All-Ireland semi-finals…Dublin and Clare through to the quarter-finals…
Cork, Offaly, Wexford, Laois seeking a place in the quarter-finals…that’s the state of play in the GAA hurling All-Ireland championship.
The quarter-final line-up will be completed next Saturday when Cork play Offaly in Tullamore and Wexford play Laois in Portlaoise in the preliminary quarter-finals.
The Cork/Offaly winners will play Dublin and the Wexford/Laois winners will
play Clare in the quarter-finals.
Limerick won the Munster title on Sunday, beating Clare and creating a record by becoming the first county to take six successive southern crowns.
Kilkenny won Leinster for a fifth successive year when beating Dublin.
Limerick and Kilkenny won’t be in action against until the weekend of July 6/7 when they face All-Ireland semi-final engagements with two from Clare, Dublin, Cork, Offaly, Wexford, Laois.
CORK v OFFALY
Cork finished third in the Munster round robin; Offaly won the Joe McDonagh Cup.
CHAMPIONSHIP SO FAR
CORK (MUNSTER ROUND ROBIN)
Waterford 2-25 Cork 1-25
Clare 3-26 Cork 3-24
Cork 3-28 Limerick 3-26
Cork 4-30 Tipperary 1-21
Won 2, Lost 2
OFFALY (JOE McDONAGH CUP)
Laois 2-21 Offaly 0-24
Offaly 2-23 Westmeath 1-20
Offaly 5-31 Meath 3-16
Offaly 3-24 Kerry 0-15
Offaly 5-23 Down 3-25
Offaly 2-23 Laois 0-26 (final)
Won 5, Lost 1
LAST FIVE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETINGS
2012: Cork 1-26 Offaly 2-16 (All-Ireland qualifier)
2012: Cork 2-17 Offaly 2-16 (All-Ireland qualifiers)
2009: Cork 3-19 Offaly 1-12 (All-Ireland qualifiers)
2007: Cork 1-27 Offaly 0-11 (All-Ireland qualifiers)
2000: Offaly 0-19 Cork 0-15 (All-Ireland semi-final)
*This will be their first championship meeting for twelve years when Cork won an All-Ireland qualifier by seven points.
*Offaly’s last championship win over Cork was in 2000 when they won an All-Ireland semi-final by four points.
*Cork scored a total of 11-107 and conceded 9-98 in their four Munster round robin games.
Match Details;
Venue; Glenisk O’Connor Park, Tullamore.
Time; 5.15pm.
Reiteoir; Sean Stack (Dublin)
Winner on the Day. Extra Time & Penalties if required;
TV; GAAGO
RADIO; Live on C103FM