ALL SET FOR SHOWPIECE GAME OF BRILLIANT HURLING SEASON

ALL SET FOR SHOWPIECE GAME OF BRILLIANT HURLING SEASON

After thirty-three games over fourteen drama-filled weeks, it’s down to the last two in the GAA hurling All-Ireland championships. Step forward, Clare and Cork for an All-Ireland final that promises to provide a fitting climax to what has been an
outstanding season.

It throws in at 3.30 in Croke Park on Sunday July 21st and will be refereed by Johnny Murphy (Limerick).

Cork and Clare last met in the All-Ireland final in 2013 when the Banner boys won a replay. That was also the last time that
neither the Leinster nor Munster champions reached the final.

Clare reached this year’s Munster final, losing to Limerick;
Cork finished third in the Munster round robin. Cork are bidding for their 31st All-Ireland win while Clare will attempt to win
their fifth crown.

This will be the eighth time that a team that didn’t win a provincial title went on to win the All-Ireland title
later in the season.

The previous winners through this route were Offaly 1998, Cork 2004, Tipperary 2010, Kilkenny 2012,
Clare 2013, Limerick 2018, Tipperary 2019.

HOW THEY REACHED THE FINAL

CLARE

Limerick 3-15 Clare 1-18 (Munster round robin)
Clare 3-26 Cork 3-24 (Munster round robin)
Clare 4-21 Waterford 2-26 (Munster round robin)
Clare 1-24 Tipperary 0-24 (Munster round robin)
Limerick 1-26 Clare 1-20 (Munster final)
Clare 2-28 Wexford 1-19 (All-Ireland quarter-final)
Clare 0-24 Kilkenny 2-16 (All-Ireland semi-final)
Won 5, Lost 2

TOP SCORERS
A McCarthy……..1-53 (0-41 frees, 0-1 ‘65’))
M Rodgers……….2-23 (0-11 frees, 0-1 ‘65’, 0-1 s/l)
D Fitzgerald………2-18
S O’Donnell………2-13
T Kelly………………1-16 (0-3 frees)
P Duggan………….1-7
D Ryan……………..1-7

 

CORK

Waterford 2-25 Cork 1-25 (Munster round robin)
Clare 3-26 Cork 3-24 (Munster round robin)
Cork 3-28 Limerick 3-26 (Munster round robin)
Cork 4-30 Tipperary 1-21 (Munster round robin)
Cork 4-25 Offaly 3-19 (All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final)
Cork 0-26 Dublin 0-21 (All-Ireland quarter-final)
Cork 1-28 Limerick 0-29 (All-Ireland semi-final)
Won 5, Lost 2

TOP SCORERS

P Horgan……4-62 (1-46 frees, 1-0 pen, 0-4 ‘65s’)
A Connolly…..4-12 (0-2 frees)
D Fitzgibbon…0-22
S Barrett………2-16
D Dalton……….0-21 (0-11 frees)
S Harnedy……..1-16
B Hayes………….2-11

LAST TEN CHAMPIONSHIP MEETINGS

2024: Clare 3-26 Cork 3-24 (Munster round robin)
2023: Clare 2-22 Cork 3-18 (Munster round robin)
2022: Clare 0-28 Cork 2-20 (Munster round robin)
2021: Cork 3-19 Clare 1-23 (All-Ireland qualifiers)
2019: Clare 2-23 Cork 2-18 (Munster ‘round robin)
2018: Cork 2-23 Clare 1-21 (Munster ‘round robin’)
2017: Cork 1-25 Clare 1-20 (Munster final)
2015: Cork 0-20 Clare 0-17 (All-Ireland qualifier)
2014: Cork 2-23 Clare 2-18 (Munster semi-final)
2013: Clare 5-16 Cork 3-16 (All-Ireland final) Replay

Clare 5 Cork 5

*This will be the 62nd championship meeting between the counties, with Cork leading 40-16 in wins while there have been five draws in the previous 61.

*Clare and Cork have met 18 times in the championship since 2000. Cork have won twelve to Clare’s five, with one draw.

*This will be the third meeting between the counties this season, with Clare winning the previous two. They won by three points in Round 1 of this year’s Allianz League and by two points in the Munster championship ‘round robin.’

*It’s 19 years since Cork last won the All-Ireland title. Their longest wait prior to that was 16 years (1903-1919).

*Cork have lost three All-Ireland finals (2006 to Kilkenny, 2013 to Clare in a replay and to Limerick in 2021) since last
winning the title when beating Galway in 2005.

*Clare manager, Brian Lohan played in three All-Ireland senior finals, winning in 1995 (v Offaly) and 1997 (v Tipperary)
and losing in 2002 (v Kilkenny).

*Whom ever  wins, it will see the All-Ireland title going to Munster for a seventh successive season (Limerick 2018-20-21-
22-23, Tipperary 2019). The last time that happened was in 1948-54 (Waterford 1948, Tipperary 1949-50-51, Cork 1952-53-54).

HOW CORK WON THEIR 30 TITLES – DECADE BY DECADE;

1890-99: 4
1900-09: 2
1910-19: 1
1920-29: 3
1930-39: 1
1940-49: 5
1950-59: 3
1960-69: 1
1970-79: 4
1980-89: 2
1990-99: 2
2000-09: 2
2010-19: 0

CLARE’S FOUR TITLES

They won their first in 1914 and had to wait 81 years for their second in 1995. They added a third in 1997 and took their fourth in 2013.

ALL-IRELAND SH ROLL OF HONOUR

36: Kilkenny (1904-1905-1907-1909-1911-1912-1913-1922-1932-1933-1935-1939-1947-1957-1963-1967-1969-1972
-1974-1975-1979-1982-1983-1992-1993-2000-2002-2003-2006-2007-2008-2009-2011-2012-2014-2015).

30: CORK (1890-1892-1893-1894-1902-1903-1919-1926-1928-1929-1931-1941-1942-1943-1944-1946-1952-1953-
1954-1966-1970-1976-1977-1978-1984-1986-1990-1999-2004-2005).

28: Tipperary (1887-1895-1896-1898-1899-1900-1906-1908-1916-1925-1930-1937-1945-1949-1950-1951-1958-
1961-1962-1964-1965-1971-1989-1991-2001-2010-2016-2019)

12: Limerick (1897-1918-21-34-36-40-73-2018-20-21-22-23).

6: Dublin (1889-1917-1920-1924-1927-1938).

6: Wexford (1910-1955-1956-1960-1968-1996)

5: Galway (1923-1980-1987-1988-2017)

4: CLARE (1914-1995-1997-2013)

4: Offaly (1981-1985-1994-1998)

2: Waterford (1948-1959)

1: Kerry (1891)

1: Laois (1915)

1: London (1901)