TIPPERARY WERE CROWNED Munster senior hurling champions for the first time in three years today and their talismanic captain Brendan Maher played a central role in the victory.
The 26-year-old from Borrisoleigh has always led from the front but he was instrumental at Semple Stadium as Tipp edged past Waterford to lift their 41st provincial title.
The headlines may go to Seamus Callanan, who scored six points, or substitute Lar Corbett who announced his return with a second-half cameo.
But it was Maher who got the vote of Donal Óg Cusack and Eddie Brennan on The Sunday Game for the man-of-the-match award to cap a memorable day for the Premier County skipper.
“When Waterford threatened to take hold of that match, Brendan Maher went toe-to-toe with Kevin Moran and played a captain’s role without being spectacular,” Brennan commented.
The other nominees were Cathal Barrett and Waterford’s Maurice Shanahan, who scored eight points for his side.
Do you agree with the panel’s selections? Let us know in the comments section.
I was in Croker on Sunday screaming my throat raw for the Rebels, but hats off to the Dubs, they have a quality team. Some fantastic play and lovely scores out of them. Actually thought they had the winning of it till the sending off. Even then, they were dangerous till the end.
Look forward to seeing more of them next year.
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Jokes on her, I make $84 an hour
Michele
If your friends mother makes that much money why you wasting your Time on the journal , wasting our time ..do us all a favour and get a real job,. Ps the journal should have sent you and your scam on your way .. Tool .. You add nothing to society..
So pleased Cork won. All this hype about Dublin teams gives me a pain in the colon::-)
John. With respect…you haven’t a clue about hurling…to make a comment like that…this year will be remembered ..in the same regard as the mid nineties.. ..a great year for gaa..
Did u read any of the papers that week,on the front page of the star there was an article about Dublin hurling and on the back page,it’s bias journalism towards Dublin gaa,always has and always will,when Kerry last won the all Ireland there was a two page article about Dublin football in the Sunday world,tell me any losing team in a final that gets more coverage than a winning team
Most of the media coverage this week has all been about Dublin hurling,people would swear that they beat Cork,teams that beat Dublin in hurling and football never get the proper recognition,
Im sure the rebels will get plenty of recognition if they bring back liam to cork town !
john so true! and same after the Kilkenny game but it doesn’t really matter when Liam comes home in Srptember!!!!
Really hope Clare win Liam now
This fella griffiths has ideas about himself. Lots of ideas
I thought it was more of a semi-colon, myself.