Cluiche Leath-Cheannais Iománaíochta Sinsir Na Mumhan 2020 TIOBRAN CLÁRAID ÁR vANN v LLUIMNEAUIMNEACHCH www.munster.gaa.ie CLÁR OIFIGIÚIL RÚNAÍ PÁIRC UÍ CHAOIMH Dé Domhnaigh 1 Samhain 2020 Tosnú: 4pm • Réiteoir: Liam Gordon (Gaillimh) CHAMPIONSHIP HURLING oh, how we’ve missed you... everything You Need For An Inspiring Match Day In! CT Hurling Match Day Programme (Munster & Leinster) A5 V04.indd 1 12/10/2020 17:13 Fáilte ón CHAMPIONSHIP gCathaoirleach A Chairde go léir, Munster Final. While that game was far from a classic I ndeireadh na dála tá comórtas craoibhe with Limerick winning Munster honours, since then HURLING iománaíochta na Mumhan 2020 faoi lán t-seoil. Tipperary have gone on to capture the 2019 All-Ireland Cuirim céad míle fáilte chuig Páirc Uí Chaoimh roimh title while Limerick have won the Co-Op Superstores oh, how we’ve buaiteoirí corn Liam Mhic Chárthaigh 2019, Tiobraid and Allianz Hurling League Finals for 2020 to set up a Árann agus iománaithe Luimnigh a bhuaigh comórtas mouth-watering game here today with a place in the missed you... na Sraithe Allianz 2020, Roinn a h-Aon. Fáilte freisin Munster Final at stake. cois Laoi roimh an reitéoir Liam Gordon agus a I would like to record an expression of gratitude to the fhoireann, na foirne Bainistíochta, na h-oifigí ón dá small group of stewards and officials who are tasked chontae agus iad siúd go léir atá ag obair anseo inniu. with running these games in a safe and efficient Tá fhios agam go bhfuil na mílte ag féachaint ar manner. While it’s regrettable (but understandable) that chluiche leath-cheannais na Mumhan ar fud na tíre supporters cannot attend our games at the present agus ar fud an domhain. Is deacair a rá cé bheidh ag time, there is still an onus on Munster GAA to ensure imirt sa chluiche ceannais, ach táimid ag súil le sár that everyone involved here today follows the Health cluiche inniu. Tugann na cluichí seo sólás do dhaoine and Safety guidelines and stays safe. everything You Need For An agus ábhar díospóireachta agus nach iontach an rud í I look forward to a high-quality game today and may the sin do shláinte mheabhrach na ndaoine. better team be successful. On behalf of Comhairle na Mumhan I welcome the Players Bainigí taitneamh as ár gcluichí. Inspiring Match Day In! and their Management Teams of Limerick and Tipperary to Páirc Uí Chaoimh for today’s Munster Semi-Final. Best Beir bua is beannacht wishes also to referee Liam Gordon and his officials. Today is an eagerly Liam Ó Loineacháin awaited repeat of the 2019 CATHAOIRLEACH COMHAIRLE NA MUMHAN 2020 MUNSTER SHC SEMI-FINAL TIPPERARY v LIMERICK Liam Gordon (GALWAY) From the Killimor club, Liam returned to action a couple of weeks ago for the Allianz League Division 2A Final between Antrim and Kerry at Bord na Móna O’Connor Park, Tullamore. Neither Tipperary nor Limerick have come under his jurisdiction at Senior Championship level, although the Corribside whistler was in charge of last year’s Tipperary-Cork Bord Gáis Energy Under 20 Final (at Limerick) and the Kilkenny-Limerick Electric Ireland Minor Semi-Final. Standby Referee - Paud O’Dwyer (Carlow). Linesman - David Hughes (Carlow). Match Sideline Official - Nathan Wall (Cork). Officials Umpires - Timmy Forde, Cian Ryan, TODAY’S REFEREE TODAY’S Damien Gibbons and Alan MacClearn (Galway). 3 CT Hurling Match Day Programme (Munster & Leinster) A5 V04.indd 1 12/10/2020 17:13 EXTRA TIME AND FINISHING GAMES ON THE DAY All games in the 2020 Munster GAA Senior Hurling Championship that finish level after normal playing times should be completed as per the GAA Ard Chomhairle Regulations approved on the 19th January 2019 and in accordance with Rules of Specification 3.4. & 3.6 T.O. Part 2 2019, that relevant games that finish level after normal playing times should be completed as follows - PHASE 1 • Proceed to Extra time as provided for in T.O Cuid II (two periods of ten minutes each way) PHASE 2 (Penalty Kicks/Pucks) If still level, a “penalty competition” to decide the outcome: • The relevant rules in T.O. Cuid II shall apply in relation to Penalty Kicks/Pucks, unless otherwise stated. • Penalties will be taken for goals only. • The Referee shall choose the end at which the penalty kicks/pucks will be taken. The end may be changed by the referee if it becomes unplayable during the course of the penalties. • If a penalty is scored, the goal umpire, will wave the green flag once the referee has signalled. • If the penalty is saved or missed the point umpire will signal a wide once the referee has signalled. • Each team shall register five penalty takers, a goal keeper & a substitute goal keeper with the referee and indicate in which order the penalty takers will take their penalties. (A penalty taker can also be a goalkeeper or a substitute goalkeeper.) • Only players who are on the field of play at the end of Phase 1 (i.e. end of Extra Time), shall be allowed to be registered as a penalty taker or goalkeeper. Exception: The substitute goalkeeper can come from the team panel. • Subject to the conditions below both teams will take five penalty kicks/pucks which are taken alternately by the teams. The game is awarded to whichever team scores more of their five penalty kicks/pucks. • If, before both teams have taken five penalty kicks/pucks, one team has scored more goals that the other team could score, even if they were to complete their five penalty kicks/pucks, no more penalty kicks/pucks shall be taken. • If, after both teams have taken five penalty kicks/pucks and both teams have scored the same number of goals, the penalty competition will continue but in sudden death format using the same five registered players until one team has scored a goal more than the other from the same number of kicks/pucks. • In sudden death, the same sequence of penalty takers does not have to be followed as in the first round of penalty kicks/pucks. • Each penalty kick/puck is taken by a different player. All registered players must take a penalty kick/puck before any player can take an additional penalty kick/puck. 2020 Munster GAA Senior Hurling Championship Fixtures ROUND DATE VENUE REFEREE QF 1 Limerick 0-36 Clare 1-23 25/10 Semple Stadium Thurles Fergal Horgan (Tipperary) SF 2 Cork Waterford 31/10 Semple Stadium Thurles @ 3:30pm Seán Stack (Áth Cliath) SF 3 Tipperary Limerick 1/11 Páirc Uí Chaoimh @ 4pm Liam Gordon (Gaillimh) FINAL 15/11 Neutral venue TBC @ 4pm 5 TIPPERARY SENIOR HURLING MANAGEMENT 2020 6 Left to Right: Tommy Dunne (Coach), Darragh Egan (Selector), Liam Sheedy (Manager), Eoin Kelly (Selector) and Eamon O’Shea (Coach) RIGHT: Tipperary Senior Hurling Captain - SEAMUS CALLANAN Photo by Kevin Hanly Mullinahone commemorates Bloody Sunday By SEAMUS McCARTHY reprisal and the acts of terror visited on the players and Beneath the backdrop of Slievenamon the Gaels of patrons in Croke Park was an atrocity that has cast a dark Mullinahone and Tipperary gathered recently to remember shadow on the hearts and minds of all Tipperary people and reflect on the events of 21st November 1920 known ever since. It was a turning point in the War of Independence after as Bloody Sunday. Any review of the revolutionary and the human loss suffered continues to resonate in our period would see the name of Mullinahone feature collective memory to this day. prominently – in the narrative of sporting and historical NOT BOUND BY HISTORY… We are but two generations recall it holds a special place reserved for heroes. removed from Bloody Sunday yet the hopes and It was a special day of remembrance for six of aspirations of the 1920’s remain valid today as we Mullinahone’s favourite sons, Jim Egan, Jimmy Doran, face challenges of a different kind. While we cannot Jack Kickham, Bill Barrett, Jackie Brett and Mick Nolan as change the past, we can draw inspiration from it- be we remembered with pride and admiration their immense not bound by history but inspired by it – and as a result contribution to Tipperary and the National struggle as grow as communities and as a people. The players of both groupings are very much intertwined. Mullinahone, Jim Egan, Jackie Doran, Jack Kickham, Bill Barrett, Jackie Brett and Mick Nolan who brought glory to Bloody Sunday was described as the ‘worst day, the Tipperary at Munster and All-Ireland level should not be worst day ever’ and the tragic events that unfolded that defined alone by Bloody Sunday but their very presence day culminating in the death of fourteen, including near in Croke Park that fateful day links them forever to a neighbour Michael Hogan, displayed a level of violence, decisive moment in the history of Ireland. previously unseen, which was to reverberate around the country and the world and ultimately undermine an empire. HEROES OF THEIR TIME… The Mullinahone players of 1920 experienced both heroism and sacrifice and now ‘sleep DARK SHADOW CAST… It was a date with destiny and a the last long sleep’ beneath the shadow of Slievenamon seminal moment in the War of Independence – in more in sacred places in Mullinahone, Kilvemnon and Croghane stark terms a day when patrons and players went to a and their legacy, as men of Tipperary and Bloody Sunday football match and many never came home. We now is assured. They were heroes of their time and of all time. reflect, at a remove of one hundred years, on the history of the occasion as it helps our understanding and places Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha.