Both sides started out quickly, but it was the Tipperary and Munster champions that outlasted their opponents in the end.<\/p>\n
The game started off thick and fast, with both sides scoring in the opening minute through Robbie Walsh and Paudie Green.<\/p>\n
Read more:<\/p>\n The Leinster side went ahead with a couple of scores before Pat Ryan scored the game\u2019s opening goal to change the lead, with further scores by Greene and a brace of Luke Shananan (two) put the Tipperary side up by four after 10 minutes.<\/p>\n That proved to be the last involvement of the day for Greene as he left the field with a suspected dislocated knee, an injury which caused a seven-minute delay.<\/p>\n Upperchurch-Drombane edged out in front again by four after the opening quarter and, despite a couple of late frees from Anthony Ireland Wall of Danesfort, went into the break three points up thanks to the only goal of the half.<\/p>\n Danesfort felt that star power was needed for the second period, with All-Ireland winner Richie Hogan introduced at the break to help the Kilkenny outfit push back against their Premier opposition.<\/p>\n Fionn Mahony responded for Danesfort after Shanahan\u2019s free before Gavin Ryan arrowed over from a sublimely struck long-range dead-ball effort on 37 minutes.<\/p>\n Things started heating up in the final quarter, with Danesfort keeper Paddy Hogan seeing his penalty saved by Ciaran Shortt at the other end.<\/p>\n Despite resolute efforts by the Ballynera natives, Danesfort reduced the deficit to one point before Cathal O\u2019Neill\u2019s only score of the game made it level as the minutes ticked down.<\/p>\n Two Shanahan frees and a Pat Ryan score helped to secure the win for Upperchurch-Drombane, who will now play Tooreen of Mayo for the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AIB All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship Semi-Final: Upperchurch-Drombane 1-13 Danesfort 0-14 Tipperary\u2019s Upperchurch-Drombane came out on top against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1965,5582,61,60,14611,43],"class_list":["post-204277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hurling","tag-tipperary-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sleacht](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766361670_558_2INSQDKM2NB3VLZOYHK4SZU6AE.jpg\")
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