{"id":421016,"date":"2026-04-28T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:25:09","slug":"referee-announced-for-limerick-hurlers-crucial-clash-with-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421016\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee announced for Limerick hurlers crucial clash with Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ppsfinancial.ie\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PPS_ad_GAA-1777288991284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"317\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE GAA have confirmed the referee for this Sunday&#8217;s Munster SHC clash between Clare and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/245\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> at Zimmer Biomet P\u00e1irc Ch\u00edos\u00f3g.<\/p>\n<p>The 2pm throw-in in Ennis will see Tipperary official Michael Kennedy in the middle as John Kiely&#8217;s side look to bounce back from the defeat to Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy took charge of Limerick&#8217;s 2024 win over Waterford at the TUS Gaelic Grounds.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the Tipp man&#8217;s second Championship outing of 2026 after taking charge of the Kildare v Wexford game earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick are set to be without the injured Aaron Gillane and suspended captain Cian Lynch as they look to get their provincial campaign back on track.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Kiely reported no new injury concerns after the defeat at SuperValu Pairc Ui Chaoimh.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/hurling\/2070641\/would-you-rather-play-next-weekend-or-train-limerick-hurlers-quick-turnaround-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;Would you rather play next weekend or train?&#8217;: Limerick hurlers quick turnaround challenge<\/a><\/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":"THE GAA have confirmed the referee for this Sunday&#8217;s Munster SHC clash between Clare and Limerick at Zimmer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,65931,112675,112],"class_list":["post-421016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-senior-hurlers","tag-munster-shc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421016","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=421016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}