- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2000
Infobox Hurling All-Ireland
year=2000
team=Kilkenny
titles=26th
captain=Willie O'Connor
manager=Brian Cody
munster=Cork
leinster=Kilkenny
ulster=Derry
connacht=
poty=D.J. Carey
matches=
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 2000 (known for sponsorship reasons as theGuinness Hurling Championship) was the 114th edition ofIreland ’s premierhurling knockout competition. The championship ran from May to September of that year, culminating with the All-Ireland final, held atCroke Park ,Dublin on10 September . The match was contested by Kilkenny and Offaly, with Kilkenny taking the title by 5-15 to 1-14. The prize for the winning team was theLiam McCarthy Cup .Format
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All provincial games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The defeated Munster and Leinster finalists were given a second chance to capture the All-Ireland title as they re-entered the championship via the ‘back-door’ system. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:
* The winners of the Leinster Championship advanced directly to the first All-Ireland semi-final.
* The winners of the Munster Championship advanced directly to the second All-Ireland semi-final.
* The winners of the Ulster Championship advanced directly to the second All-Ireland quarter-final where they were drawn to play the defeated Munster finalists.
* Galway, a team who faced no competition in the Connacht Championship, automatically advanced to the first All-Ireland quarter-final where they were drawn to play the defeated Leinster finalists.
* Repeat games at the All-Ireland semi-final stages were avoided.Results
Ulster Senior Hurling Championship footballbox
date =July 9
Final
team2 = Antrim
score = 4-8 – 0-19
team1 = Derry
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Casement Park ,Belfast ----Munster Senior Hurling Championship footballbox
date =May 27
Quarter-Final
team2 = Cork
score = 0-4 – 2-32
team1 = Kerry
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =FitzGerald Stadium ,Killarney ----footballbox
date =May 28
Quarter-Final
team2 = Waterford
score = 0-17 – 0-14
team1 = Tipperary
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = ----footballbox
date =June 4
Semi-Final
team1 = Cork
score = 2-17 – 1-11
team2 = Limerick
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Semple Stadium ,Thurles ----footballbox
date =June 11
Semi-Final
team1 = Tipperary
score = Win – Lose
team2 = Clare
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Páirc Uí Chaoimh ,Cork ----footballbox
date =July 2
Final
team2 = Tipperary
score = 0-23 – 3-12
team1 = Cork
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Semple Stadium ,Thurles
Attendance: 54,586----Leinster Senior Hurling Championship footballbox
date =June 18
Semi-Final
team1 = Kilkenny
score = 3-16 – 0-10
team2 = Dublin
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Croke Park ,Dublin ----footballbox
date =June 18
Semi-Final
team1 = Offaly
score = Win – Lose
team2 = Wexford
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Croke Park ,Dublin ----footballbox
date =July 9
Final
team1 = Kilkenny
score = 2-21 – 1-13
team2 = Offaly
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Croke Park ,Dublin
Attendance: 32,802----All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship footballbox
date =July 23
Quarter-Final
team2 = Tipperary
score = 1-14 – 0-15
team1 = Galway
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Croke Park ,Dublin ----footballbox
date =July 23
Quarter-Final
team1 = Offaly
score = 2-23 – 2-17
team2 = Derry
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Croke Park ,Dublin ----footballbox
date =August 6
Semi-Final
team1 = Offaly
score = 0-19 – 0-15
team2 = Cork
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Croke Park ,Dublin ----footballbox
date =August 13
Semi-Final
team1 = Kilkenny
score = 2-19 – 0-17
team2 = Cork
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =Croke Park ,Dublin All-Ireland final
Overview
Sunday
10 September was the date of the 2000 All-Ireland senior hurling final between Kilkenny and Offaly. Kilkenny were appearing in their third All-Ireland final in-a-row after losing to Offaly in1998 and to Cork in1999 . They were looking to capture a first championship title since1993 . Offaly were lining out in their first championship decider since they won the title in 1998. Both sides last met in the championship in the Leinster final earlier in the year when Kilkenny trounced Offaly.Match report
At 3:30pm match referee
Willie Barrett threw in the sliothar and the Millennium All-Ireland final, the 112th in all, got under way. Right from the throw-in the Kilkenny men tore into the game. Offaly errors, so untypical of them throughout the late 1990s, were punished mercilessly by the Kilkenny defenders and their forwards. ‘The Cats’ goal-scorer supreme,D.J. Carey , needed only six minutes to make his mark on this decider when he pounced on a mistake from Offaly corner-backNiall Claffey to ram home Kilkenny's opening goal. Carey’s sixth minute goal was followed three minutes later by aHenry Shefflin three pointer. Shefflin’s effort was helped home by Carey but the umpire ruled that the ball had already crossed the line. After ten minutes the score read 2-3 to 0-1 in Kilkenny’s favour and Offaly looked like they were in real trouble. The last twenty-five minutes of the opening half saw Offaly get into the groove and score seven more points, five of which came fromJohnny Dooley frees. Offaly’s only real goal chance, a ground stroke fromMichael Duignan , went narrowly wide in the eighteenth minute. Kilkenny, however, created several opportunities to add to their two early goals and it was little surprise whenCharlie Carter bagged a third goal for ‘the Cats’ four minutes before half-time. At the interval, in spite of Offaly’s eighteen scoring chances to Kilkenny’s fifteen, ‘the Cats’ had to a ten-point lead of 3-10 to 0-9.At the beginning of the second-half the Offaly selectors made some tactical changes in an effort to eat into Kilkenny’s ten-point lead. Ace wing-back
Brian Whelehan and star corner-forward Michael Duignan swapped positions whileJohn Troy was sprung from the substitutes’ bench. These changes failed to alter the dominance of Kilkenny as ‘the Cats’ looked likely to score a goal at any time of the game. For the second time Shefflin was the man on hand to hit the fourth goal after latching onto a brilliant long clearance from substituteCanice Brennan and kicking the sliothar pastStephen Byrne from close range. In the fifty-ninth minuteJohnny Pilkington clawed one back for Offaly when his shot went pastJames McGarry . An injury-time goal by substitute Canice Brennan was the icing on the cake as Kilkenny defeated their Leinster rivals by 5-15 to 1-14. This game marked the end of the road for the great Offaly team of the 1990s while it was the beginning of a great decade of success for Kilkenny.tatistics
footballbox
date=2000-09-10
15:30 BST
team1=Kilkenny
score= 5-15 – 1-14
team2=Offaly
report=
goals1=H. Shefflin (2-2)D.J. Carey (1-4)
C. Carter (1-3)
D. Byrne (0-4)
C. Brennan (1-0)
J. Hoyne (0-1)
A. Comerford (0-1)
goals2=Johnny Dooley (0-8)
J. Pilkington (1-1)
G. Hanniffy (0-1)B. Murphy (0-1)
P. Mulhaire (0-1)Joe Dooley (0-1)
B. Whelehan (0-1)
stadium=Croke Park ,Dublin
attendance=61,493
referee=Willie Barrett (Tipperary)References
* Corry, Eoghan, "The GAA Book of Lists" (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
* Donegan, Des, "The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games" (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).
* Nolan, Pat, "Flashbacks: A Half Century of Cork Hurling" (The Collins Press, 2000).See also
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