2012 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final

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2012 Leinster Senior Hurling Final
Event 2012 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship
Galway Kilkenny
Galway colours.PNG Kilkenny colours.PNG
2-21 2-11
Date 8 July 2012
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee J. McGrath (Westmeath)
Attendance 22,171[1]
Weather Dry
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The 2012 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final, the deciding game of the 2012 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, was a hurling match played on 8 July 2012 at Croke Park, Dublin. Contested by Galway and Kilkenny, most experts gave the former little chance against the latter.

Pre-match

Galway were 11/2 outsiders going into this game.[2] On the day of the game RTÉ delivered a verdict favouring Kilkenny, saying "Kilkenny's vice-like grip on the Leinster title is set to remain as tight as ever, unless Galway can produce something extraordinary at Croke Park today".[3]

Match summary

Galway secured a historic first ever Leinster title, after unexpectedly defeating the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions, Kilkenny.[4] In doing so they held Kilkenny scoreless for the first twenty minutes, had 1-6 to 0-0 lead after 18 minutes, and led at half-time by 2-12 to 0-4, the full-time score of was 2-21 to 2-11.[5] The result sent the Bob O'Keeffe Cup across the Shannon for the first time in the GAA's 128-year history.[6]

8 July 2012
16:00 IST
Galway 2–21 – 2–11 Kilkenny
J Canning (1-10, 7fs), C Donnellan (0-05), D Burke (1-02), N Burke (0-02), D Collins (0-01), D Hayes (0-01). Report H Shefflin (1-08, 7fs), R Hogan (1-00), R Power (0-02), M Rice (0-01).
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 22,171
Referee: J. McGrath (Westmeath)
Galway
Kilkenny

Post-match

Kilkenny manager Brian Cody said afterwards that his team were “wiped out” by Galway.[7] The Irish Examiner reported on "a historic day in Croke Park [...] a day that may also go down in history for another reason, however, the day an empire began to crumble".[8] Martin Breheny, writing in the Irish Independent, called it "one of the most remarkable shut-outs of modern-day hurling" and reported that Galway had moved to the top of the selection of teams to have beaten the Cats "after subjecting Kilkenny to a systematic beating which nobody thought remotely possible".[2]

The teams would meet again in the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final to decide the destination of the Liam McCarthy Cup, with Kilkeeny winning that game after a replay.

Sale of medal

A 2012 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship winners' medal was later sold on eBay for €570.[9]

References

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