CORK AND CLARE will meet again in the All-Ireland hurling final replay at 5pm on Saturday 28 September, the GAA confirmed this afternoon.
The Munster neighbours finished level, 0-25 to 3-16, after a thrilling contest in a sold-out Croke Park yesterday.
It is the second successive year that the hurling season has been extended by a few weeks.
Prior to the drawn final between Kilkenny and Galway in 2012, the last time the hurling decider ended in a stalemate was in 1959.
Although last year’s replay was held on the final Sunday of September, an agreement between the GAA and the LGFA means that this year’s ladies football finals will not be rescheduled and instead take place as planned in Croke Park on Sunday 29th, the day after the hurling.
The decision to schedule an evening throw-in this year was decided following consultation with An Garda Síochána, the GAA said.
Extra-time will be played if required.
Fingers crossed it’s nothing too career threatening for Heaslip. Just sanction for Pape as well – I’d imagine a mid-range ban of 10 weeks is coming his way. And is Barnes gonna be stood down as well for his all-round inability to ref??
If he hasn’t been stood down by now (this stage of his “career”), I doubt there would be anything for him to worry about now.
Probably be given the world cup final…
Too right. Wayne Barnes neglecting to give Pape a red card for the incident highlights the kind of woeful reffing performance he put in on Saturday.
If it’s intentional isn’t it automatically a red?
It’s a bit of a balls at this stage though, fair enough he got sin binned, but he is probably going to be banned for one of, if not both of the England and Wales games, which is punishing Ireland in a way!
I agree, unfortunately Wales and England benefit while one of our best players could miss the rest of the champions.
Hope he gets a hefty ban.
Very dirty thing to do.
Maybe he should get the same ban that heaslip got for the same thing?
A ban for the referee is in order here too!
Everyone could see it was a cite-able offence, never mind a red card. A yellow was a cop out.
With doctors and coaches under so much scrutiny regarding concussions and player welfare, it’s about time referees were made answerable for their decisions. Why was Pape allowed back on to the pitch following such dangerous play?
Murray, I’m sure you are already lining up you analysis pieces for the week but given the less than glowing response to a victory over the French (madness considering our record against them) maybe you could look at where we are failing in an attacking sense considering the calibre of players wee have in the backline….
Although naturally as a Munster fan I can totally appreciate grinding teams down for results…
The reason we couldnt score any tries was because Barnes consisently penalised Ireland at the breakdown when in France’s half which was largely because we didnt commit enough players to the breakdown.
We conceded 11 penalties which is the most we have ever conceded under Schmidt. As a result we had to adapt tactically and play a more kicking game than go wide through building phases.
What goes around comes around. Heaslip did the same thing to a Kiwi head a few years ago. Still not right but if you give it you must expect it!
Heaslip was just swinging his knee! If Richie McCaw wasn’t offside there would have been no issue.
And sure that’s all Pascal was doing
“Swinging a knee” is a complete understatement, Heaslip repeatedly kneed McCaw in the head, however McCaw was on the completely wrong side of the ruck (as per usual). Heaslip got a red card but none of the New Zealand boys got anything when they started laying into him on the ground in retaliation… Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it Barnes that refereed that game and ordered Heaslip off?
Too many eyes in rugby now. I fear the game may become a bit ‘soft’. (Personal opinion not province based – although I do loath the ‘cult of referee superstars’ that is now a thing).