Results:
Division 1 hurling league quarter finals
Full-time: Laois 2-19 Clare 2-23
Full-time: Limerick 1-12 Galway 1-20
Full-time: Wexford 2-16 Kilkenny 4-22
Full-time: Tipperary 3-25 Cork 4-19
Division 1A relegation playoff:
Full-time: Waterford 1-17 Dublin 4-13
Division 1B relegation playoff result: Antrim 1-18 Offaly 1-14
Watching the Liverpool game butwant to keep up-to-date on the small ball action? Out on your bike or stuck in a garden centre? Never fear, we’ll be across all this afternoon’s games.
There’s not long left in the game that threw in early and Offaly are in serious trouble. Antrim are four points up with two minutes left so the Faithful are facing relegation unless the can turn this around.
Result: Antrim 1-18 Offaly 1-14. The Ulster side stay in Division 1B. Offaly now play Division 2A winners to try to survive the drop
Wexford 0-4 Kilkenny 1-5 the Cats have started like a train, creating plenty of goal opportunities with Walter Walsh raising the green flag already.
Laois 1-3 Clare 0-7 The All-Ireland champions were unbackable favourites going into this quarter-final but the Leinster side put it up to them in the first quarter. Niall Foyle goalled to put Laois ahead but Davy Fitzgerald’s side tacked on a few consecutive points to now lead it.
Cork seem to be at sixes and sevens in the backline in Thurles. Tipperary have raced into a 2-4 to no score lead.
Wexford 0-6 Kilkenny 2-8 TJ Reid (1-3) has now added another goal to Walter Walsh’s opener and Brian Cody’s side are well in control.
Red card: If Laois were up against it before, they’re certainly facing a long shift now. Left half back tom Delaney was sent to the line for striking but the Banner have not yet pulled away: 0-9 to Laois’s 1-6.
Tipperary 2-4 Cork 1-3 the comeback is on in Thurles. JBM’s Rebels have at last sparked into life with Seamus Harnedy finding the net to make it a four-point game all of a sudden.
Tipperary 2-4 Cork 2-3 It was 2-4 to no score at one stage but the Leesiders have hit 2-3 of their own without replay. Harnedy has followed up on his goal with another.
Half-time: Waterford 1-8 Dublin 2-6
If the Déise are going to avoid relegation they’ll have to do it the hard way. Half-back Shane O’Sullivan has been sent off for a foul on Michael Carton and they trail by a point at the break. Paul Ryan scored the first goal for the visitors from a 20m free before Colm Cronin added another before the interval.
Laois 1-9 Clare 1-12 Shane O’Donnell has done what he does best for Clare this afternoon, scoring a goal before the half-time break to give the Banner the lead against 14-man Laois.
Tipp 2-8 Cork 2-8 Cork’s talismanic forward Pat Horgan has levelled it up in Thurles. He dropped in a longrange free to tie up the game. The Glen man will thank referee Barry Kelly for a second chance to make the shot as he was told to retake the free.
Tipperary 3-9 Cork 3-9 Drama at Semple Stadium! Anthony Nash trotted up the field and goaled one of his trademark goals moments before Jamie Coughlan tacks on a point. That strike from the Kanturk man will add more grist to the ‘Nash rule’ debate. John O’Dwyer had scored the third goal for the Premier, not long beforehand.
Half-time: Cork 3-11 Tipperary 3-9 At one stage the Rebels trailed by 10 points but Jimmy Barry-Murphy will address his players at half-time, with a two-point lead. Patrick Horgan nailed two late frees to get the All-Ireland finalists ahead.
Wexford 1-12 Kilkenny 3-10: Brian Cody’s men have started the second half as they mean to go on. TJ Reid took advantage of Matt O’Hanlon not clearing his lines to fire home and bring his tally to 2-4.
Waterford 1-10 Dublin 3-6 The Dubs — with the numerical advantage — are starting to make it count. Danny Sutcliffe found the bottom corner to give Anthony Daly’s side the lead at Walsh Park.
Waterford 1-10 Dublin 4-7 Danny Sutcliffe has added another goal — two inside a minute — and the Déise are staring relegation in the face.
Division 1 – Derry 2-17 Kildare 1-9: Mark Lynch points yet another free for the home side.
Wexford 1-13 Kilkenny 4-14 TJ Reid has added another goal — an apparently mis-hit free found it’s way under the crossbar.
Laois 1-11 Clare 2-16 Shane O’Donnell, he scores goals.
Limerick 0-9 Galway 1-13 Joe Canning is on for Niall Burke with the Connacht side in control at the Gaelic Grounds.
Wexford 2-15 Kilkenny 4-20 This game may well be over effectively but Wexford have managed to find the net again thanks to Rory Jacobs. Brian Cody has emptied his bench with the likes of Henry Shefflin and Michael Fennelly featuring.
Tipperary 3-19 Cork 3-14 The Premier have really taken control in the last five minutes. Conor Lehane pointed for the Rebels but otherwise it’s been all Tipp and they’ve pulled into a four-point lead now with Seamus Callanan scoring the most recent.
Galway 1-20 Limerick 1-12 It won’t have much effect on who plays in the semi-final but Limerick have scored a super goal at the end of a poor enough outing. James Ryan was the man who finished it off.
Laois 2-19 Clare 2-21 Wow! It’s back to a one-score game thanks to a late Laois goal from Brendan Reddin against the All-Ireland champions.
Full-time: Wexford 2-16 Kilkenny 4-22
Full-time: Wexford 2-16 Kilkenny 4-22
Full-time: Waterford 1-17 Dublin 4-13 It’s all over at Walsh Park now too and it’s not good news, Déise supporters.
Full-time: Limerick 1-12 Galway 1-20
Effectively, it’s 32 points to 30 in Thurles and we’re into the last five minutes or so. Pat Horgan found the net for the Rebels to set up an exciting finish.
Tipperary 3-23 Cork 4-19 Horgan sends over another free to bring the difference to just one point with a minute or so left.
Tipperary 3-24 Cork 4-19 The next score, to state the obvious, was going to be crucial. And it was a Tipperary man who got it; Noel McGrath sends it over Anthony Nash’s bar.
Tipperary 3-25 Cork 4-19 John O’Dwyer adds a point to his tally after a lovely pass by Noel McGrath.
Here comes Nash…
Full-time: Tipperary 3-25 Cork 4-19: What drama. Nash’s goal effort is saved on the line and the referee blows it up. Tipperary win by the puck of a ball.
