The 2022 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 135th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the

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's premier

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hurling tournament, since its establishment in

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. The provincial fixtures were released on 27 November 2021. The championship began on 16 April 2022 and ended on 17 July 2022.

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entered the championship as defending champions having won the previous two championships.

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, having won the 2021 Joe McDonagh Cup, returned to the Leinster Championship for the first time since the 2017 competition. The

All-Ireland final The All-Ireland Final may refer to: * All-Ireland Hurling Final, the last match to be played in the All-Ireland Hurling Championship (Senior, Minor and Under-21 levels) * The last match to be played in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship ...

was played on 17 July 2022 at Croke Park in

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, between Limerick and Kilkenny. Defending champions Limerick won the game by 1-31 to 2-26 to claim their fourth title in five years and their first ever three-in-a-row. Limerick captain Declan Hannon became the first captain to lift the

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four times.

Teams

Personnel and general information

Summary

Championships

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Joe McDonagh Cup

Christy Ring Cup

Nicky Rackard Cup

Lory Meagher Cup

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Leinster table

Antrim beat

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in the 2022 Joe McDonagh Cup final and were promoted to the

2023 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship The Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hur ...

Laois County Laois ( ; gle, Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medi ...

were relegated to the

2023 Joe McDonagh Cup The 2023 Joe McDonagh Cup is due to be the sixth staging of the Joe McDonagh Cup since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 2018 Joe McDonagh Cup, 2018. Antrim county hurling team, Antrim, winner of the 2022 Joe McDonagh Cup ...

as they finished last in the

2022 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship The 2022 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship was the 2022 installment of the annual Leinster Senior Hurling Championship organised by Leinster GAA. Kilkenny were the defending champions having defeated Dublin in the 2021 final. Team changes ...

Leinster round 1

Leinster round 2

Leinster round 3

Leinster round 4

Leinster round 5

Leinster final

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Munster table

Munster round 1

Munster round 2

Munster round 3

Munster round 4

Munster round 5

Munster final

Joe McDonagh Cup

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Bracket

Preliminary Quarter-Finals

Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

All-Ireland Final

Championship statistics

Top scorers

;Top scorer overall ;In a single game

Miscellaneous

* Cork's Patrick Horgan surpassed Joe Canning to become the championship's all-time top scorer. *Cork's seventeenth year in a row without an

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senior title, their longest dry spell since the founding of the championship. *It was the first championship meeting between Cork and Antrim since 2010. *It was the first championship meeting between

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and

since the

1891 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final The 1891 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 4th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1891 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at ...

. *This was Kilkenny's seventh season in a row without a title, their worst streak since 1984–1991 (which was eight years in a row). The last time Kilkenny lost three All Ireland finals per appearance was in 1940, 1945 and 1946 to Limerick, Tipperary and Cork respectively. *

join an elite group of hurling teams to have won 3 All Ireland's in a row. Kilkenny achieved this feat in 2008, previous to that Cork won it in 1978 and

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last completed it in 1951.

Live televised games

RTÉ, the national broadcaster in

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, provided the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship with 17 games shown.

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also broadcast a number of matches and had exclusive rights to some games.

Awards

;Sunday Game Team of the Year ''

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'' team of the year was picked 17 July on the night of the final. The panel consisting of

Jackie Tyrrell Jackie Tyrrell (born 19 June 1982) is an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team spanned fourteen seasons from 2003 to 2016. Born in Kilkenny, Tyrrell was raised in a hurling household. His father, De ...

, Brendan Cummins, Donal Óg Cusack,

Davy Fitzgerald David Dermot Fitzgerald (born 2 August 1971) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He has been manager of the Waterford county team since 2022, having previously managed the team between 2008 and 2011. As a player, he is widely consid ...

, Shane Dowling, and

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chose

Diarmaid Byrnes Diarmaid Byrnes (born 1994) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right wing-back for club side Patrickswell and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team. Playing career University During his studies at Limerick Institute of ...

as the Sunday game player of the year from a list that also contained TJ Reid and

Barry Nash Barry Nash (born 31 December 1996) is an Irish hurler who plays as a left corner-back for the Limerick senior team. Playing career South Liberties Nash joined th South Liberties club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and u ...

. *1. Nickie Quaid (Limerick) *2. Sean Finn (Limerick) *3. Huw Lawlor (Kilkenny) *4. Barry Nash (Limerick) *5. Diarmuid Byrnes (Limerick) *6. Declan Hannon (Limerick) *7. Pádraic Mannion (Galway) *8. Adrian Mullen (Kilkenny) *9. David Fitzgerald (Clare) *10. Gearoid Hegarty (Limerick) *11. Kyle Hayes (Limerick) *12. Shane O'Donnell (Clare) *13. Aaron Gillane (Limerick) *14. TJ Reid (Kilkenny) *15. Tony Kelly (Clare) ;All Star Team of the Year On 28 October, the All-Star winners were presented at a black-tie ceremony at the Convention Centre in Dublin.

was named as the All Stars Hurler of the Year with Mikey Butler named the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year.

References

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