Limerick came out on top in a thrilling finish at Pairc Ui Chaoimh this afternoon to edge Cork by 1-21 to 2-17 and land their seventh Munster senior hurling championship title in eight years.

Played before a 43,209 crowd at their home venue, this hotly-anticipated decider saw Cork bidding for their second consecutive provincial crown having defeated the Treaty men in a penalty shootout a year ago to the day.

The sides exchanged two points apiece before the Rebels won a penalty which Mark Coleman dispatched to the net and back-to-back points from Tim O’Mahony afterwards had the scoreboard reading 1-4 to 0-2 after 13 minutes.

The visitors responded brilliantly, with Aidan O’Connor’s point being backed up by a Gearoid Hegarty goal, but Ben O’Connor’s side would get a run of scores again that saw O’Mahony (65), William Buckley, Alan Connolly (free) and Robert Downey all raising white flags.

O’Connor got two points back for the Shannonsiders, with Cathal O’Neill and Shane O’Brien also pointing in between in those scores, leaving it at 1-11 to 1-9 in the hosts’ favour when the teams went in at the break.

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Tom Morrissey and Connolly (free) swapped points before Brian Hayes hammered in a second goal for the Leesiders in the 38th minute to pushed the margin out to five.

The next three scores – two of them from O’Connor – went the way of Limerick and they’d have it down to a one-point game after the Ballybrown man sailed over his eighth point of the afternoon in the 62nd minute.

Another Connolly free looked to steady the ship for the holders, but a Diarmaid Byrnes ‘65’ would be followed up by a Hegarty point to level matters before the latter set-up Peter Casey to fire John Kiely’s men ahead on 70 minutes.

Connolly’s last free of the day brought Cork back on level terms, but Limerick went up the other end and found Casey again to move in front and, in the end, time ran out on Cork’s effort to try and force extra time.

The result sees the Treaty County recording its 26th Munster SHC success, as they now advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals where they’ll meet the winners of Clare and Dublin while Cork now face Offaly in the All-Ireland quarter-finals for place in the last four against newly crowned Leinster champions Galway.

FT: Limerick 1-21 Cork 2-17

It's all over at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Limerick have claimed the provincial bragging rights

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