Kilkenny v Tipperary live updates: All-Ireland hurling semi-final

All-Ireland SHC semi-final: Kilkenny 0-10 Tipperary 1-2

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Earlier:

All-Ireland MFC final: Tyrone 1-16 Kerry 1-15, FT

All-Ireland camogie quarter-final: Tipperary 1-22 Kilkenny 0-19

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18 mins: Stakelum gets another point for Tipperary to reduce the deficit to four. Superb interplay and skill by Kilkenny, Kenny wins a free which TJ Reid taps over. O’Farrell hits it wide as the weather gets worse at Croke Park. Massive point though by Connolly puts Tipp back to four back.

15 mins: Shelly causing big problems with his long puckouts, with Tipp going for several goal chances, but strangely no points on the board. Molloy gets another for Kilkenny as this time Lawlor wins it in the air and eventually ends up with another point, Billy Ryan. Stakelum finally gets Tipp’s first point of the game.

Good catch by Donnelly in midfield and it’s another. It’s quite the spell by the Cats. Kilkenny 0-9 Tipperary 1-1

12 mins: Good battling by TJ Reid against Maher, wins it eventually and slots it over. Very good start by Kilkenny, they have had much of the play. Keoghan scores another. Kilkenny 0-6 Tipperary 1-0

9 mins: Another wide by Donnelly, his second of the game. Good piece of play by Kilkenny as Deegan plays a lovely ball down the wing to Billy Ryan and shoots if over off his left. Then Keoghan gets in front of his marker and smacks one over.

But then goal for Tipperary! Good puckout and then a shot is blocked. Falls to McGrath and he hits a superb shot into the roof of the goal.

After a sluggish start, John McGrath's fine goal draws Tipperary level with Kilkenny at Croke Park.

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Jordan Molloy puts Kilkenny back ahead, it’s kicking off now! Tipp were nearly in for a goal again, but good defending by Kilkenny.

Kilkenny 0-4 Tipperary 1-0

5 mins: McCarthy with an early yellow card after a swipe of the Kilkenny player’s hand. A few wides for both teams and a few mistakes in what is a nervy start.

2 mins: First chance of the game, McCarthy hits it wide. TJ Reid shows his threat with the first point of the game, 37-year-old will have to be watched today. Kilkenny 0-1 Tipperary 0-0

The teams are on the pitch, 65,000 odd at Croke Park. Throw-in about five minutes.

From Gordon Manning at Croke Park:

Good afternoon from Croke Park. Both teams are out on the pitch going through their pre-game warm-ups. Kilkenny were first out and the Cats will line out as selected during the week.

Cian Kenny and Jordan Molloy have been selected at midfield with John Donnelly captaining the team from centre forward. TJ Reid will wear 14 and he is flanked by Marian Keoghan and Eoin Cody.

Tipperary have made one change to their starting team – Conor Stakelum replacing Peter McGarry. Ronan Maher captains the team from centre back.

It had already been a positive day for Tipp at Croke Park after the Premier County’s camogie team beat Kilkenny in their All-Ireland quarter-final.

A heavy shower fell in the closing stages of that match so underfoot conditions could be slippery. It’s dry right now though and the sun is starting to peek through the clouds. Croke Park was a sea or red yesterday and GAA officials say they are expecting around 55,000 for today’s semi-final. Cork await the winners in the decider. We are about 20 minutes away from throw-in at Croke Park.

One change in the Tipperary Team.

Conor Stakelum comes in for Peter McGarry. pic.twitter.com/Yn1MFJp9u2 — Tipperary GAA (@TipperaryGAA) July 6, 2025

TIPPERARY: R. Shelly, R. Doyle, E. Connolly, M. Breen; C. Morgan, R. Maher (capt), B. O’Mara; W. Connors, C. Stakelum; J. Morris, A. Ormond, S. O’Farrell; D. McCarthy, J. McGrath, J. Forde.

Subs: B. Hogan, J. Caesar, S. Kenneally, S. Kennedy, B. McGrath, N. McGrath, O. O’Donoghue, J. Ryan, P. McGarry, D. Stakelum, A. Tynan.

KILKENNY: E. Murphy; M. Butler, H. Lawlor, S. Murphy; M. Carey, R. Reid, P. Deegan; C. Kenny, J. Molloy; A. Mullan, J. Donnelly (capt), B. Ryan; M. Keoghan, TJ Reid, E. Cody.

Subs: A. Tallis, T. Walsh, D. Blanchfield, P. Moylan, K. Doyle, ZB Hammond, F. Mackessy, S. Donnelly, L. Hogan, L. Connellan, B. Drennan.

Final score of Tipperary 1-22 Kilkenny 0-19 in the camogie semi-final, a big extra-time by Tipp.

Camogie semi-final draw:

Cork v Waterford

Galway v Tipperary

Nicky English wrote this about today’s game:

"Sunday’s semi-final is complicated because, as mentioned at the top, I have no idea what the ‘relativities’ between the provinces are at this stage. Kilkenny are Leinster champions and don’t look to me like they have disimproved in any way.

“You could say they have added a couple of players in Jordan Molloy and Shane Murphy, but they were panellists and the team is much the same as lost to Clare last year.

“Mossie Keoghan has been in good form and Eoin Cody is back from injury so it’s a recognisable package – extremely recognisable, as they have been on the road so long and there aren’t many miles left for a lot of them.

“So, it’s now or never for a team that has been waiting to redeem what they see as a preventable defeat against Clare last year.”

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Meanwhile, the camogie quarter-final between Kilkenny and Tipperary is going to extra time.

Glen Dimplex Senior Camogie All Ireland Quarter Final

Full Time

Kilkenny 0-16

Tipperary 0-16

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Kilkenny's Laura Murphy forces extra time against Tipperary in the All-Ireland Camogie quarter-final

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Tyrone are minor football champions!

A last minute point by Diarmuid Martin wins it for the Ulster side. Final score 1-16 to 1-15.

Tyrone's Peter Colton celebrates after scoring. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho

A big goal from Peter Colton from the penalty spot means that Kerry and Tyrone are level, 1-14 each, with five minutes left in the minor football final.

Here is the match preview from Seán Moran:

“There is every reason to trust Kilkenny’s remarkably consistent delivery at this level more than the Tipperary rebuild and to be wary of one of those blazing phases when they go to town on a team.

“But Tipp have had the lessons of two incinerations in Pairc Uí Chaoimh when they chased a lost cause regardless. In the league final they actually outscored Cork in the second half, and with 14 men in Munster they still managed to create goal chances.

“Kilkenny won’t present them with the tracts of space they got from Galway but in a coin-toss decision, maybe their hard-won momentum can carry them a little farther.”

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Also on today is the All-Ireland minor football final between Tyrone and Kerry. The score there is 1-7 to 0-8 to Kerry at half-time, Kerry with a late goal there to take the lead.

Hello and welcome to live coverage of the second All-Ireland semi-final between Kilkenny and Tipperary at Croke Park. Throw-in is at 4pm. Cork threw around their weight yesterday in thrashing Dublin, scoring seven goals, and now two great rivals are ready to try to get through and have a cut at them in a few weeks time. The three teams left in the championship are the three royalties of hurling, winning 94 of all possible All-Irelands, and don’t tend to get bashful when they see the Liam MacCarthy Cup in sight. This should be an interesting battle today, closer than yesterday you imagine.

Here are the teams:

TIPPERARY: R. Shelly, R. Doyle, E. Connolly, M. Breen; C. Morgan, R. Maher (capt), B. O’Mara; W. Connors, P. McGarry; J. Morris, A. Ormond, S. O’Farrell; D. McCarthy, J. McGrath, J. Forde.

Subs: B. Hogan, J. Caesar, S. Kenneally, S. Kennedy, B. McGrath, N. McGrath, O. O’Donoghue, J. Ryan, C. Stakelum, D. Stakelum, A. Tynan.

KILKENNY: E. Murphy; M. Butler, H. Lawlor, S. Murphy; M. Carey, R. Reid, P. Deegan; C. Kenny, J. Molloy; A. Mullan, J. Donnelly (capt), B. Ryan; M. Keoghan, TJ Reid, E. Cody.

Subs: A. Tallis, T. Walsh, D. Blanchfield, P. Moylan, K. Doyle, ZB Hammond, F. Mackessy, S. Donnelly, L. Hogan, L. Connellan, B. Drennan.

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