{"id":461769,"date":"2026-05-22T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461769\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:22:09","slug":"cian-lynch-on-the-bench-as-limerick-hurling-team-to-face-tipp-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461769\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Lynch on the bench as Limerick hurling team to face Tipp revealed"},"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\/05\/PPS_ad_GAA-1779437626069.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"317\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/245\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> team to face Tipperary in Sunday&#8217;s Munster Senior Hurling Championship clash has been named &#8211; and team captain Cian Lynch remains on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Lynch had a huge influence when introduced in the first half of the victory over the Waterford at the TUS Gaelic Grounds last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick are back at the Ennis Road venue and John Kiely has named an unchanged side with the already-eliminated All-Ireland champions coming to town.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the win over a dogged Waterford, there were areas where Limerick can improve, according to the manager.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/gaelic-football\/2085941\/blow-for-limerick-footballers-as-darragh-o-hagan-loses-red-card-appeal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Blow for Limerick footballers as Darragh O&#8217;Hagan loses red card appeal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The review will be tough in some respects because we did leave Waterford get a run on us at times and we paid a big price for it. But at the same time, I have to acknowledge the character shown by the lads. The calmness and the willingness to grind it out, they stayed patient, stayed calm, stayed focused and got the job done in the finish. I have great regard for what they did out there today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LIMERICK: Nickie Quaid; Sean Finn, Dan Morrissey, Barry Nash; Diarmaid Byrnes, William O&#8217;Donoghue, Kyle Hayes; Darragh O&#8217;Donovan, Adam English; Gearoid Hegarty, Aidan O&#8217;Connor, Cathal O&#8217;Neill; Aaron Gillane, Shane O&#8217;Brien, Peter Casey.<\/p>\n<p>TIPPERARY: Rhys Shelly; Robert Doyle, Ronan Maher, Keith Ryan; Eoghan Connolly, Bryan O&#8217;Mara, Seamus Kennedy; Conor Stakelum, Alan Tyan; Oisin O&#8217;Donoghue, Jake Morris, Noel McGrath; Darragh McCarthy, John McGrath, Stefan Tobin.<\/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 Limerick team to face Tipperary in Sunday&#8217;s Munster Senior Hurling Championship clash has been named &#8211; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,118571,61,60,17406,65931,112],"class_list":["post-461769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-cian-lynch","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-gaa","tag-limerick-senior-hurlers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461769","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=461769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}