Michael Bolton<\/p>\n
28th minute: Gillane scored another point as some great defending from Galway has kept Casey from scoring a goal, with the sequence ending with a long-range point from Adam English.<\/p>\n
Jason Rabbitte opens his account to keep Galway in touch. Limerick 0-9 Galway 0-7.<\/p>\n
25th minute: Galway have grown into the game as the frees of Niland and Byrnes have continued to be crucial, with Limerick leading 0-7 to 0-6.<\/p>\n
18th minute: Limerick have opened up a 0-6 to 0-4 lead, with further scores from O’Connor and Byrnes.<\/p>\n
14th minute: Byrnes has put Limerick back in the lead with another free, as both teams have given away frees early on.<\/p>\n
10th minute: Galway are level once again after another free from Niland. Galway 0-3 Limerick 0-3.<\/p>\n
7th minute: Gillane feeds Hegarty, who ploughs through on goal again, but there\u2019s another save from Fahy. Limerick have targeted goals early on.<\/p>\n
Niland has brought Galway level with another free.<\/p>\n
Great save from Galway goalkeeper Daragh Fahy to keep out Gear\u00f3id Hegarty from scoring the game’s opening goal.<\/p>\n
Diarmuid Byrnes puts over the 65, in an end-to-end start<\/p>\n
The game is underway, with Galway hitting the first wide in 20 seconds, with Aaron Niland scoring a free seconds later. Gillance has Limerick’s first point of the game.<\/p>\n
The teams are out for the National Anthem, with throw-in just a couple of minutes away in front of a sold-out Croke Park.<\/p>\n
There is one change to the Galway matchday squad, with Declan McLoughlin for the injured Brian Concannon on Galway’s bench.<\/p>\n
Limerick: Nickie Quaid; Sean Finn, Mike Casey, Barry Nash; Diarmaid Byrnes, William O\u2019Donoghue, Kyle Hayes; Adam English, Cian Lynch (capt); Gearoid Hegarty, Aidan O\u2019Connor, Cathal O\u2019Neill; Aaron Gillane, Shane O\u2019Brien, Peter Casey.<\/p>\n
Subs: Colin Ryan, Colin Coughlan, Fintan Fitzgerald, Matthew Fitzgerald, Hugh Flanagan, Ethan Hurley, Darragh Langan, Dan Morrissey, Tom Morrissey, Darragh O\u2019Donovan, David Reidy.<\/p>\n
Galway: Darach Fahy; Joshua Ryan, Cillian Trayers, Darren Morrissey (capt); Padraic Mannion, Daith\u00ed Burke, Ronan Glennon; Tiernan Killeen, Gavin Lee; Tom Monaghan, Cathal Mannion, Darragh Neary; Conor Whelan, Jason Rabbitte, Aaron Niland.<\/p>\n
Subs: Eanna Murphy, Shane Morgan, Fintan Burke, Cian Daniels, Cianan Fahy, Conor Cooney, John Flemin, Se\u00e1n Linnane, Cillian Whelan, Colm Molloy, Declan McLoughlin.<\/p>\n
Welcome to our updates of the All-Ireland hurling final, as Galway take on Limerick in Croke Park.<\/p>\n
Limerick are back in hurling’s biggest day after winning four in a row between 2020 and 2023, while Galway were last in the final in 2018, having won Liam MacCarthy in 2017.<\/p>\n
After winning the Munster championship, Limerick had to dig deep in the semi-final against Clare.<\/p>\n
Galway won the Leinster final against Dublin and followed it up with an impressive victory against Cork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bolton 28th minute: Gillane scored another point as some great defending from Galway has kept Casey from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-557674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557674","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=557674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}