The Leinster GAA Hurling Minor Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Electric Ireland Leinster GAA Hurling Minor Championship, is an annual

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hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

competition organised by the Leinster Council of the

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(GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurling competition for male players under the age of 17 in the province of Leinster, and has been contested every year – except for a three-year absence during the Emergency – since the 1928 championship. Despite the name, the competition also includes teams from Ulster and Connacht. The final, usually held on the last Sunday in June, serves as the culmination of a series of games played during April, May and June, and the results determine which team receives the Hanrahan Cup. The championship was previously played on a straight knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship, however, the championship has since incorporated a round-robin system. The Leinster Championship is an integral part of the wider GAA Hurling All-Ireland Minor Championship. The winners of the Leinster final, like their counterparts in the Munster Championship, are rewarded by advancing directly to the semi-final stage of the All-Ireland series of games. The losers of the Leinster final enter the All-Ireland series at the quarter-final group stage. 11 teams currently participate in the Leinster Championship.

Trophy

At the end of the Leinster final, the winning team is presented with a trophy. The Hanrahan Cup is named after Walter Hanrahan (Wexford), the first Secretary of the Leinster Council.

General statistics

Performance by county

Biggest Leinster final wins

* The most one sided Leinster finals: ** 29 points – 1974:

Kilkenny Kilkenny ( , meaning 'church of Cainnech of Aghaboe, Cainnech'). is a city in County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region, Ireland, South-East Region and in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinst ...

8-19 (43) – (14) 3-5

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

** 27 points – 1972:

7-10 (31) – (4) 0-4

Wexford Wexford ( ; archaic Yola dialect, Yola: ''Weiseforthe'') is the county town of County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the ...

** 26 points – 2006:

4-22 (34) – (8) 1-5

Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, it had a population of 27,351, the List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland, ...

** 25 points – 1971:

7-18 (39) – (14) 3-5

** 25 points – 1946:

7-5 (26) – (1) 0-1

Laois County Laois ( ; ) 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 medieval kingdom. Hist ...

** 25 points – 1935:

7-8 (29) – (4) 1-1

Miscellaneous

hold the record for the longest streak of success. For ten championship seasons between 1990 and 1999 the county failed to lose a game and won ten Leinster titles in-a-row. * Kilkenny hold the record for the most consecutive appearances in Leinster finals. They played in twelve in a row between 1968 and 1979, with success coming on ten of those occasions. * Four counties have completed the minor and senior double in the same year: **Kilkenny in 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021 **

in 1928, 1938, 1952 **

in 1968, 1970, 2019 ** Offaly in 1989

List of Leinster Finals

#Kilkenny were disqualified from the championship due to their registration not being in order. #Laois were awarded the title following an objection.

Records and statistics

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Leinster Minor Hurling Championship titles, is as follows: *1930s: 8 for Kilkenny (1930-31-32-33-35-36-37-39) *1940s: 3 each for Kilkenny (1942-48-49) and Dublin (1945-46-47) *1950s: 7 for Kilkenny (1950-51-55-56-57-58-59) *1960s: 4 each for Kilkenny (1960-61-62-69) and Wexford (1963-66-67-68) *1970s: 9 for Kilkenny (1971-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79) *1980s: 4 for Kilkenny (1981-82-84-88) *1990s: 10 for Kilkenny (1990-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99) *2000s: 7 for Kilkenny (2001-02-03-04-06-08-09) *2010s: 5 for Kilkenny (2010-13-14-15-17) *2020s: 4 for Kilkenny (2020-21-24-25)

Top scorers

Overall

Finals

References

External links

All-time roll of honour

2012 Leinster Minor Hurling Championship fixtures

Complete Roll of Honour on Kilkenny GAA bible
{{Leinster Council 11 Minor-level hurling 1928 establishments in Ireland Recurring sporting events established in 1928 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship