{"id":489611,"date":"2026-06-08T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489611\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:36:07","slug":"cork-v-offaly-clare-v-dublin-hurling-quarters-set-for-thurles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489611\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork v Offaly, Clare v Dublin hurling quarters set for Thurles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship quarter-finals will be played on separate dates at Semple Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Clare will face Dublin at 7pm on Saturday, June 20, while the following day, Cork will play Offaly at 3:30pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Both games will be shown live by  RT\u00c9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The last quarter-finals staged on different days took place in 2018 when Clare played Wexford at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh and a day later, Limerick faced Kilkenny in Thurles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Last year&#8217;s quarter-finals &#8211; between Galway and Tipperary and Limerick and Dublin &#8211; were played on the same day at different venues, the Gaelic Grounds and Croke Park, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Cork and Offaly game should draw a major crowd to Thurles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Former Cork hurler Patrick Horgan expects a Rebels victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Cork will face Offaly, who have made huge strides in recent years,&#8221; Horgan wrote in  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport-columnists-gaa\/arid-41859078.html\">his Irish Examiner column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;It\u2019s great to see them back at the top table because they\u2019re a fantastic hurling county, but Cork will expect to win this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;They\u2019re far more experienced and are at a higher stage of development than Offaly, and \u2014 even allowing for the misfires Sunday \u2014 they have huge attacking power. That\u2019s not knocking Offaly, who will get better and better as their team matures and gains experience, but I\u2019d expect Cork to make the All-Ireland semi-final.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Saturday June 20\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Clare v Dublin, FBD Semple Stadium, 7pm, RT\u00c9\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Sunday June 21\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cork v Offaly, FBD Semple Stadium, 3.30pm, RT\u00c9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship quarter-finals will be played on separate dates at Semple Stadium. Clare will face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177329,1965,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-489611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-championship-2026","tag-hurling","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489611","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=489611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}