ALL-IRELAND UNDER 21 HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL Tipperary will play Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling Championship Final on Sunday week, September 14th at 2:00pm at Croke Park. Tipperary have defeated Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling final on four different occasions - 1980 (2-9 to 0-14), 1981 (2-16 to 1-10), 1985 (1-10 to 2-6) and in 1995 (1-14 to 1-10) DAN BREEN CUP MATCH PROGRAMME The race for the Dan Breen Cup will begin on Saturday week September 13th with a mouth-watering double-header at Leahy Park Cashel as the last 16 of the County Senior Hurling Championship gets underway. At 3:30pm, local rivals Cappawhite and Eire Og Annacarty take to the field while at 5:00pm, reigning County champions Loughmore-Castleiney put their title on the line against the newly crowned South champions Killenaule. One match programme is being compiled to cover all eight matches in this round of the County Senior Hurling championship which takes place over the weekends of September 13th and September 20th / 21st. There will be a limited number of adverts accepted for this programme. Anyone wishing to place an advert should contact County PRO Ed Donnelly at 087-2055642 or [email protected] by this Friday, September 5th. SEAMUS O RIAIN CUP There are four clubs remaining in the Seamus O Riain Cup Senior Hurling competition following the Quarter-Final action over the last week. The semi-finals will take place in Templemore on Saturday September 20th. At 3:00pm, Upperchurch-Drombane will play Kilruane MacDonaghs while at 4:30pm, Carrick Swan take on Moneygall. COUNTY MINOR "C" HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL Lattin-Cullen and Moneygall have qualified for the County Minor "C" Hurling Championship Final on Saturday September 13th. In the semi-finals in the last few days, Lattin-Cullen defeated Skeheenarinky by 4-11 to 1-17 while Moneygall defeated Ballyneale by 3-7 to 1-3. Both Lattin-Cullen and Moneygall are looking for the first title in this grade. Since this Championship began in 1999, the breakdown of titles by division is North (4), Mid (3), South (1) and West (1). DIVISIONAL SENIOR HURLING FINALS Clonoulty-Rossmore captured their 12th West Senior Hurling title on Sunday last after a 1-13 to 0-9 victory over Eire Og Annacarty. This is Clonoulty-Rossmore's third West Senior Hurling title this decade matching their total for the last decade. The West club won four titles in the 1930's before winning further titles in 1951 and 1989. Drom & Inch captured their second Mid Senior Hurling title in three years and fourth title overall thanks to a 2-19 to 0-21 victory over Thurles Sarsfields on Sunday. Drom's previous titles came in 1974, 1984 and 2006. Finally, Killenaule came from behind to defeat Ballingarry by 3-15 to 1-10 in the South Senior Hurling Final. Killenaule have now won three of the last four South Senior Hurling titles having won just three titles between 1964 and 2004. ALLIANZ CUMANN NA MBUNSCOL FOOTBALL MEETING The annual Allianz Cumann na mBunscol Gaelic Football Meeting will take place this year in Cahir House Hotel on Monday next, September 8th at 8:00pm. All fixtures and gradings will be decided at this meeting. Any school that wishes to enter or regrade should inform the secretary Aodan Wrenn (087-6578057) before the meeting. Please note all football trophies should be returned at this meeting. REFEREES COURSE A course for new referees in Tipperary will take place this month over four nights with over 21 people signed up to attend thus far with 9 from both the Mid and South divisions, 2 from the West division and 1 from the North division. The training will take place in the Cashel King Cormacs GAA complex on Monday September 8th, Wednesday September 10th, Monday September 15th and Wednesday September 17th. The training begins at 8:00pm sharp on each of the four dates mentioned above. For more details, contact John Lonergan (Secretary of the County Referees Committee) at [email protected]. CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCES Since 1991, a total of 104 Tipperary hurlers from 35 different clubs have appeared in the Inter-County Senior Hurling Championship led by Brendan Cummins with 51 appearances followed by Tommy Dunne (44) and Eamon Corcoran (43). Not surprisingly, Toomevara have provided the most players for the Championship period 1991 to 2008 with a total of 14 players. Borris-Ileigh, Mullinahone and Clonoulty-Rossmore provided 6 players each while Nenagh Eire Og, Loughmore-Castleiney, Cashel King Cormacs, Killenaule and Thurles Sarsfields provided 5 players each. KILMACUD CROKES ALL-IRELAND SENIOR HURLING SEVENS The annual Meteor Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Senior Hurling 7's competition takes place on this coming Saturday with a larger than even entry from the Premier County as 11 clubs are due to take part. There are ten groups of four clubs each with the first group matches getting underway at 10:30am. The winners of each group will qualify for the knockout stages beginning at 2:30pm with the final scheduled for Glenalbyn at 6:45pm. As ever, an exciting day of hurling is in store and with Tipperary having such a large contingent, hopefully the title will be returning to the Premier County on Saturday evening. The group draws were made on Monday and the groups involving Tipperary clubs are as follows - Group 1 - Cashel King Cormacs, Cloyne (Cork), St. Martins (Kilkenny) and Padraic Pearses (Galway); Group 2 - Nenagh Eire Og, Liam Mellowes (Galway), St. Lachtains (Kilkenny) and Fourmilewater (Waterford); Group 3 - Carrick Swan, Moyne-Templetuohy, Craughwell (Galway) and Faughs (Dublin); Group 4 - Kilruane MacDonaghs, Knockainey (Limerick), Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) and Kinvara (Galway); Group 5 - Garda College, Portroe, Beagh (Galway), Carrickshock (Kilkenny); Group 6 - Lorrha-Dorrha, Bishopstown (Cork), Glenealy (Kildare) and Clarenbridge (Galway); Group 7 - Borris-Ileigh, Mullagh (Galway), O'Donovan Rossa (Antrim) and Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin); Group 8 - Toomevara, Carrigtwohill (Cork), Ballinderreen (Galway) and St. Johns (Antrim); Group 9 - Upperchurch-Drombane, Killeagh (Cork), Rathdowney (Laois) and Ballygunner (Waterford). Best of luck to all involved. Check out http://www.kilmacudcrokes-hurling.com for more details over the weekend. TIPPERARY GAA MEMBERS DRAW 2008/2009 The September monthly draw in the 21st Tipperary GAA Members draw for 2008 / 2009 will take place on Friday week, September 12th in McCormacks Pub, Kilcommon. FUN DO PACKS A limited number of Fun Do Packs are available for purchase at ?50 each. Also, any club or individual who has ordered and paid for Fun Do Packs should contact Dinny Maher (086-3551830) to arrange collection. TIPPERARY HURLING CLUB IN NY In the New York Senior Hurling Final played on Sunday August 24th, Offaly retained their title thanks to a 1-18 to 0-14 victory over Tipperary. The Premier County had Ger Mahon (Galway) and Ollie Moran (Limerick) in town as their "weekend players. However, it was Offaly who dominated the opening quarter with a goal from Eunan McKillop helping the Faithful County to a 1-6 to 0-2 lead after 15 minutes. Tipperary got back in to the game with points from Kieran Bergin (3), Liam Costello and substitute Mike Stretch and by the interval, Offaly's lead was reduced to four points, 1-8 to 0-7. Tipperary's Mike Stretch and Dave Loughnane scored the first two points of the second half and soon afterwards, Kieran Bergin had an excellent goal chance to put Tipperary in front but his effort was well saved by Offaly goalie Alan Gleason. The resultant clearance resulted in an Offaly point from play by Stephen Brown and instead of being in front, Tipperary now trailed by three. This was as close as Tipperary came to victory as Offaly dominated the final quarter to run out deserving seven point winners. The Tipperary team and scorers were as follows - Tomas O'Meara, Shane Walsh, Ger Mahon, John Purcell (0-1), John Madden, Martin Dunne, Dave Loughnane (0-1), Sean Sheperd, Andrew O'Connell, Ollie Moran, Eoin Power (0-3), Liam Costello (0-2), Kieran Bergin (0-3). Subs: Mike Stretch (0-4), Mike Maher, Mike Fitzgerald, Tony Hogan, Gary O'Donoghue. CALLING ALL GAA CLUBS Vision Independent Productions are currently making a new entertainment show for RTE and are hoping to get all GAA clubs involved. The show will be an interactive game show that will use Skype technology so people can take part from home. The idea behind the show is that people will be connected to the studio via Skype, and can win themselves 1,000 euro by answering a general knowledge question and completing one challenge. The show will be airing on Sunday nights and will be RTE's replacement for You're a Star coming up to Christmas. Anyone interested in taking part should e-mail [email protected] and include your SKYPE/MSN/Yahoo contact details and a contact phone number. TIPPERARY GAA SCENE Information concerning all areas in the GAA will appear in this section in the future. If you wish to include any item of interest in future articles, please contact the County Public Relations Officer Ed Donnelly at 087-2055642 or via e-mail at [email protected] on or before 3:00pm on Monday. Visit the Tipperary GAA web site at http://tipperary.gaa.ie to keep up to date with all the latest news in Tipperary GAA circles. Tweet

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