Colm Lyons will referee the 2026 GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship final between Galway and Limerick on Sunday week.<\/p>\n
It will be the Corkman’s second senior final.<\/p>\n
The Nemo Rangers member also refereed the 2022 All-Ireland final between Limerick and Kilkenny, the All-Ireland Minor final in 2012, the National Hurling League final in 2017, the Leinster Hurling final in 2017, the Munster Hurling Final in 2024 and the All-Ireland Senior Club final in 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n
He has refereed Limerick vs Tipperary in the Munster Championship this year, as well as Galway vs Dublin and Galway vs Kilkenny in the Leinster Championship.<\/p>\n
It will be his 39th Liam MacCarthy game to referee since his first in 2012.<\/p>\n
Umpires on the day will be Ciar\u00e1n Hanley from the Brian Dillons Club, Jim McEvoy from Blarney, Philip Mackey and Finian Mullane, both from Nemo Rangers.<\/p>\n
Line umpires will be Wexford\u2019s James Owens and Dublin\u2019s Chris Mooney.<\/p>\n
Owens will be the standby referee, and the sideline official will be Niall Malone from Clare. David Grogan from Tipperary will be the Hawk-Eye official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colm Lyons will referee the 2026 GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship final between Galway and Limerick on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-540295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540295","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=540295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}