Toomevara and Kiladangan for North Senior Hurling Final

By Shane Brophy

The club championships are only weeks old but we are already at finals time with a bumper weekend of divisional hurling finals across the county.

Locally in North Tipperary, the showpiece senior hurling final between Kiladangan and Toomevara at MacDonaghs Park Nenagh on Sunday at 4.30pm is between the two clubs that have dominated it in different eras.

Toomevara top the roll of honour with 33 successes but this will be their first final appearance in twelve years and you have to go back a year further for the last time they got their hands on the Frank McGrath Cup when getting the better of Kiladangan.

Kiladangan have just eight North titles to their name by comparison but five have come in the time since Toomevara’s last success.

This is also Kiladangan’s sixth North final in a row going back to 2018 with no final being played in 2020. They have only won two of those finals in 2019 and 2021 and are aiming to avoid a three-in-a-row of final defeats having lost the last two finals to Nenagh Eire Og’s whose three-in-a-row hopes went ended by Toomevara in the semi-final last Sunday.

The senior final will be preceded by the premier intermediate final between Burgess and Silvermines who are aiming to get their hands on the Liam Devaney Cup for the first time, while on Saturday evening in Dolla, the North Intermediate final will take place between Moneygall and Portroe.

With divisional hurling finals in various grades taking place in the Mid, South & West divisions across the weekend, the club season is really cranking up ahead of the start of the County Championship at the end of the month.