Tipperary GAA Scene

By Jonathan Cullen PRO

Munster Senior Football Championship

There was disappointment for our Senior Footballers who were defeated by Waterford 2-7 to 1-5 in the Munster quarter final, last Sunday in Dungarvan.

The focus for our Senior Footballers will now turn towards the Tailteann Cup which will commence in a few short weeks’ time.

Munster Under 20 Football & Hurling Championships

Following on from their impressive displays against Limerick (draw), Clare (win) and Waterford (win), the Tipperary under 20 Footballers have progressed to Phase 2 of the Munster Championship with their first game in Phase 2 taking place this Wednesday evening at 7.00pm in Fethard Town Park where they will take on Cork before games against Clare and Kerry in the coming weeks.

The under 20 Hurlers are also in action this week when they commence their Munster Championship campaign with a trip to Rathkeale to play Limerick on Friday at 7.00pm. Manager Brendan Cummins and his backroom team have been preparing the panel of players for this campaign over the last number of months and they will go in to the competition with a certain degree of confidence that winning provincial and national honours are very achievable. We wish them well in their endeavours.

Munster Minor Hurling & Football Championships

Our Minor Hurlers commenced their season with a well-deserved 1-19 to 2-12 win over Cork in FBD Semple Stadium last Thursday evening.

They now look forward to their Round 2 clash with Waterford this Thursday evening at 7.00pm in Fraher Field, Dungarvan.

The Tipperary Minor Footballers also got off to winning ways last week when they overcame Limerick 2-13 to 0-13 on Tuesday week last in Fethard Town Park.

Tipperary’s round 2 game against Waterford took place last night (Tuesday) in Lemybrien and at the time of writing it was hoped that they would make it 2 from 2 in that game.

Munster Championship Tickets

Tickets for Tipperary’s forthcoming Munster Senior Hurling championship games are now on sale and can be purchased online from Ticketmaster.ie or in selected Centra and Supervalu stores across the county. Juvenile Group orders can now be placed via https://munster.gaa.ie/tickets for Senior Hurling Championship Round Robin games in Thurles, Cork, and Limerick. Tickets for all underage games can be purchased via the following link: https://www.universe.com/users/munster-gaa-TR8ZGN

Gaeltacht Scholarship

Munster GAA are offering one full scholarship per county to the Gaeltacht. The new scholarship competition will be for second-level students aged between 12–17 years, wishing to attend a Gaeltacht course this Summer (minimum stay 2 weeks). One full scholarship per county in the province will be awarded. Scholarships will cover the full cost of the Gaeltacht course. Entry requirements are as follows:

Applicants aged 12 – 17 are required to submit a video recording in Irish of one minute’s duration on the following Topic: An t-Imreoir is fearr liom (Based on Gaelic games of all codes)

Video to also include a brief introduction of self from the student, outlining their interest in Gaeilge and our culture. The deadline for submissions is this Friday, April 12th. Students who have already applied for a partial – scholarship in their counties may also apply for this full scholarship.

For further information, contact: culturalofficer.tipperary@gaa.ie. Winners will be announced in April 2024. Please note that canvassing will disqualify.

Handball

The new Handball Centre in Croke Park was buzzing at the weekend with the Senior Ladies & Men’s All-Ireland semi-finals and finals taking place.

The Ladies Senior title was won by Cork’s Caitriona Casey who beat Fiona Tully from Roscommon.

The much awaited men’s senior final between Cavan’s Paul Brady & Robbie McCarthy from Westmeath saw Brady show all the skills that has him rated the world’s number 1 take the first game 21/16. In the second game, Brady was on fire and pulled off some great shots to lead 16/4. He picked up a groin strain and had to leave the court. Returning he played on with McCarthy picking up four more aces. Brady added to his injury while attempting to retrieve a ball from the back and was unable to continue which gave the All-Ireland title to McCarthy.

In the Intermediate Singles semi-final, Rory Grace (Lahorna) beat Ollie Cassidy from Mayo, 21/8, 21/8. In the Junior Singles, Jerome Cahill (Lahorna) defeated Lorcan Conlon from Mayo, 21/15, 21/6. In the Junior ‘B’ Singles, Paddy Delaney from Cashel was in a tough battle with James Dempsey from Galway and won in a tight match 21/19, 21/20.

In the Silver Masters ‘B’ Singles, Christy McGrath from Carrick-on-Suir lost the first game 21/12 but made a great comeback to take the second 21/8 and took the tie-break 11/8. In the Emerald Masters ‘B’ Singles, Kevin Buckley from Cashel dominated from the start and went on to win 21/4, 21/3. In the Golden Masters ‘A’ Singles, David Moloney from Cashel was never troubled and went on to an easy victory 21/2, 21/1.

In the Over 70’s Singles, Jim Ryan from Silvermines was up against Micky Walsh from Roscommon. He took the first set 21/12. In a close second game, Jim narrowly lost 21/19. He was beaten in the tie-break 11/5.

The All Ireland Finals will be played next weekend in Croke Park. Best of Luck to all our Finalists.

Tipperary Association Dublin Awards

The Tipperary Association Dublin’s annual awards function will be held on Saturday, 27th April in the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel, Newlands Cross at 2.00pm when the Tipperary Person of the year for 2023 will be presented to the well-known duo of John O’Brien & John McMahon, better known as The 2 Johnnies. Also, the Hall of Fame award will be presented to singer/songwriter Brendan Graham. Tickets, €30, including lunch, can be purchased by contacting Pat Ryan 087 6376663 or proriain@gmail.com.

1989 All-Ireland Legends Celebration Golf Gathering rescheduled

The Legends Golf Classic in aid of the Dillon Quirke Foundation, sponsored by Enfer Scientific, which was due to take place in Cahir Golf Club on Friday, 19th April has been postponed and rescheduled for Friday, 24th May due to the poor recent weather.

For more information; e-mail: legendsgolfclassic@outlook.ie, call or text: 0851021971 and join the WhatsApp group.

Tipperary GAA Scene

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