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The 1961 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 75th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The championship began on 16 April 1961 and ended on 3 September 1961. Wexford were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the provincial championship.
The highest ever attendance at a Munster Championship game was recorded on 30 July 1961 when a crowd of 62,175 attended the Munster final between Cork and Tipperary. This is the officially-recorded attendance, however, due to spectators storming the gates the attendance could have been as high as 70,000 or more.
The 15-game unbeaten streak, which included just one drawn game, ended with a 4-22 to 1-22 extra-time loss to Tipperary in the replay of the 1987 Munster final. Limerick (15 matches): As of 11 June 2023, Limerick are currently unbeaten in 15 Munster Championship games, a run that started in the 2019 Munster Final on 30 June 2019.
The 1961 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 74th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1961 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. [3] The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 3 September 1961, between Tipperary and Dublin. The Leinster champions ...
He won a Leinster SHC medal as a substitute in 1961. He was also listed amongst the substitutes when Dublin were beaten by Tipperary in the 1961 All-Ireland final. Kennedy was the first player to score in a live televised GAA match, when he scored the opening point in the 1962 Railway Cup final, playing for Leinster in their win over Munster ...
Tipperary demolished all opposition in the provincial championship once again and a 4-11 to 0-5 trouncing of Cork gave Maher a sixth Munster medal. Wexford were Tipperary's opponents in the subsequent All-Ireland final on 5 September 1965, however, the game failed to live up to the two classic games between the two sides in 1960 and 1962.
This is a list of hurlers who have received a winners' medal in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship.. Currently, the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association issues medals limited to the winning team, however, the individual county board has the option of ordering extra medals for members of the extended panel or for players, who may have played during the championship but missed ...
A remarkable season of championship hurling, the first to employ a new round robin format, saw Galway face Limerck in the All-Ireland final. Limerick got an injection of confidence in the 16th minute with a Graeme Mulcahy goal that arrived moments after Galway had crept in front by 0-6 to 0-5.