Limerick landed the Allianz Hurling League Division 1A title for the first time since 2023 by dethroning Cork with a 1-27 to 1-21 victory at the TUS Gaelic Grounds this afternoon.

Aaron Gillane starred for the Shannonsiders with 1-7, including a 17th minute goal which moved them into a nine-point lead after Brian Hayes had netted the Rebels first score in the eighth minute.

The Treaty men had struck six unaswered points before Hayes found the net for the Munster championship and John Kiely’s team would be up by 1-12 to 1-3 a quarter of an hour.

The Leesiders would hit five unanswered points – four of them Alan Connolly frees – and got more from Connolly and Hayes to only trail by 1-13 to 1-10 at the half.

Limerick made a strong restart that saw frees from Aidan O’Connor push their lead back up to six and, while Ben O’Connor’s side did cut their deficit to two with the help of Tim O’Mahony (free) and Mark Coleman, a Diarmaid Byrnes ‘65’ and Gillane free steadied the Treaty ship.

Hegarty made it a four-point game ahead of Gillane and David Reidy restoring their team’s six-point advantage, with Darragh Fitzgibbon rounding off the Cork tally in injury-time and Gillane (free) completing his personal total of 1-7 with the last puck.

Watch: FULL-TIME HIGHLIGHTS 📺@LimerickCLG are the Allianz League Division 1A champions after a 6 point win against @OfficialCorkGAA 🏆#AllianzLeagues #LIMvCOR pic.twitter.com/nPu9ypGS9V

— The GAA (@officialgaa) April 5, 2026

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