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Galway-Tipperary showdown in store in Croke Cup final on St Patrick's Day

Presentation Athenry and Thurles CBS won today’s semi-final clashes, while St Pat’s Maghera are through to the Hogan Cupn final

Results

Croke Cup semi-finals

  • Thurles CBS 0-21 Coláiste Bhaile Chláir 0-17
  • Presentation Athenry 4-13 St Kieran’s Kilkenny 2-11

Hogan Cup semi-final 

  • Mercy Mounthawk 1-8 St Pat’s Maghera 2-10

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THERE WILL BE a Galway-Tipperary showdown in this year’s Croke Cup final after today’s semi-final action.

Thurles CBS, this year’s Dr Harty Cup champions, won the first of today’s semi-final ties as they defeated Galway’s Coláiste Bhaile Chláir in Banagher by four points, 0-21 to 0-17.

The second semi-final saw Galway’s Presentation Athenry triumph in Bansha by eight points, 4-13 to 2-11.

Thurles CBS will contest the final for the first time since 2015, while Presentation College Athenry teams featured in the 2018, 2019, and 2023 finals, losing out to St Kieran’s on each occasion.

This evening’s Hogan Cup semi-final refixture saw St Pat’s Maghera defeat Mercy Mounthawk Tralee 2-10 to 1-8 in Abbotstown in Dublin, after their meeting was postponed last week due to weather conditions. Mayo’s St Colman’s of Claremorris await in the final.

The Croke Cup and Hogan Cup deciders are both scheduled to take place on St Patrick’s Day in Croke Park.

More to follow…

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