Ballyhale Shamrocks

A BUMPER weekend of GAA action sees Ballyhale Shamrocks face Dunloy Cúchullains in the All-Ireland club hurling final.The Kilkenny giants are gunning.

Ballyhale Shamrocks are favourites at 1/8 to win the All-Ireland title, while Dunloy are out to 6/1. What are the odds? What are the teams?

Cuchulainns Dunloy face into a massive assignment when they confront the mighty Ballyhale Shamrocks in today's All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship ...

Our preparations have gone well but we will be judged on what we do out there on the Croke Park pitch,” insists O’Kane. “We are comfortable on the wide open spaces of Croke Park where we underlined our speed in the All-Ireland Semi-Final, but we know Ballyhale will still be hurting from their loss to Ballygunner last year. “The name of the game is putting scores on the board and we have to underline we can do just this.

Kilkenny's Ballyhale Shamrocks take on Dunloy of Antrim in the AIB All Ireland Club Hurling Champoinship Final at Croke Park.Throw-in is at 1:30pm.

Less than 12 months after suffering one of the most devastating All-Ireland final defeats in the history of the game the Shamrocks, club hurling's aristoc.

Both he and Darren Mullen look big doubts for the weekend. Despite all their success over the last few years, complacency is not something that tends to interfere with the Ballyhale club. If you want to go back even a little further, it’s not too long ago since the Shamrocks were given a huge fright against Slaughtneil of Derry in the 2020 All-Ireland senior semi-final. Shamrocks were on the back foot for long stages of their Leinster championship victories over Naas and Kilmacud Crokes and even a year previous they required a last minute goal against Offaly side St Rynagh’s in order to avoid a big shock. In saying that though, this looks the perfect opportunity for the Shamrocks to right a few wrongs. That’s something that the current crop of Dunloy players look very well equipped to achieve after already accounting for the likes of Slaughtneil and St Thomas in this year’s competition.

Antrim champions Dunloy were just one point in arrears going into the final 10 minutes.

A Sean Elliott score, plus Cunning’s third free from three, brought it back to two at the turnaround. Adrian Mullen didn’t start because an injury, an obvious loss for the Ballyhale attack, Joey Cuddihy getting them off their mark, scoring after a neat pass from TJ Reid. They finished with 10 different scorers, TJ Reid scoring 0-7, and Cody might well have had a couple more goals had Ryan Elliott not stood in the way.

Ballyhale Shamrocks saw off Dunloy to regain their All-Ireland senior hurling crown in a humdinger at Headquarters.

Ballyhale Shamrocks stretched their lead at the top of hurling's club All-Ireland titles with their ninth Tommy Moore Cup with this seven point win over ...

Dunloy switched to a short puckout strategy in the second half but still got little return from their policy of raining in high ball. As a result of Dunloy moving the chess pieces around the board, it left Evan Shefflin free and his deliveries routinely had the Dunloy rearguard beleaguered. The writing was on the wall in the first half when all the factors were totted up.

They have done! Kilkenny five in a row champions Shamrocks have secured another All Ireland title.

There was great work from Evan Shefflin, proving he is key to the defensive responsibilities of the Kilkenny Champions, finding Eoin Cody with the chance to put it over his shoulder and separate the side by a single point. Just like the first half, TJ Reid had the first chance of the half from a 65′ and you can rest assured he opened the scoring. Dunloy had a few chances to clear but were punished for some costly mistakes by Eoin Cody who tapped it passed the Dunloy shot stopper. Another high ball into Colin Fennelly allowed Shamrocks to get another one over the bar, before TJ Reid sliced it off the bottom of his stick, over in left half forward position to draw the game. Captain Paul Shields got us level in Croke Park bang on the 12 minute mark, some lovely control of the ball on the stick followed up by a point from play by Oran Quinn. A ninth All Ireland title was on the line for Ballyhale Shamrocks, a chance to create even more history for the Leinster champions.

Dunloy agonising wait for an All-Ireland club title goes on after their fifth final defeat here to Ballyhale Shamrocks.

Dunloy switched to a short puckout strategy in the second half but still got little return from their policy of raining in high ball. As a result of Dunloy moving the chess pieces around the board, it left Evan Shefflin free and his deliveries routinely had the Dunloy rearguard beleaguered. The writing was on the wall in the first half when all the factors were totted up.