{"id":243630,"date":"2026-01-14T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243630\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:41:12","slug":"venue-confirmed-for-limericks-munster-hurling-league-final-clash-with-waterford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243630\/","title":{"rendered":"Venue confirmed for Limerick&#8217;s Munster Hurling League final clash with Waterford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ppsfinancial.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pps_logo-1768321461643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"296\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/245\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIMERICK<\/a>\u00a0will take on Waterford in the final of the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League on Saturday next after a dramatic conclusion to the group stages of the competition on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/gaelic-football\/1987432\/limerick-ladies-all-ireland-winning-captain-cathy-mee-calls-time-on-decorated-inter-county-career.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Limerick Ladies All-Ireland winning captain Cathy Mee calls time on decorated inter-county career<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s early season final will have a 3.15pm throw-in time with Mallow set to host the decider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Limerick claimed top spot in Group B of the Munster Hurling League and with it qualification to the final by virtue of their superior points difference to both Clare and Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Cork claimed a dramatic 1-18 to 0-20 victory over Clare in the final group fixture at Mallow on Monday night. Home side Cork had trailed by five points with nine minutes of the contest remaining. A draw or victory would have seen Clare advance to the decider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Limerick, Clare and Cork each finished up with one win and one defeat in their group fixtures. However, Limerick&#8217;s big 1-28 to 0-16 win over Cork in their second game at the T\u00daS Gaelic Grounds on Wednesday last ensured John Kiely&#8217;s charges topped the group on scoring difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Limerick had suffered a 3-20 to 3-18 defeat to Clare in their opening group game in Tulla.<\/p>\n<p>While Limerick finished with a scoring difference of +13 after their two group games, Clare&#8217;s was +2, with Cork on -14.<\/p>\n<p>Waterford claimed top spot in Group A also on scoring difference, following an opening round draw against Tipperary with a runaway victory over Kerry in their second outing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for\u00a0Saturday&#8217;s clash between Limerick and Waterford will go on sale at 12 noon on Wednesday and the match will be broadcast live on TG4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIMERICK\u00a0will take on Waterford in the final of the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League on Saturday next after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46,61,60,1396,17406,112,59302],"class_list":{"0":"post-243630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-limerick-gaa","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tus-gaelic-grounds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243630","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=243630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}