2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final

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2000 All-Ireland Hurling Final
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Event 2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Date10 September 2000
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Man of the Match D. J. Carey [1]
Referee Willie Barrett (Tipperary) [2]
Attendance61,493
1999
2001

The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the culmination of the 2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. It was played on 10 September 2000 between Kilkenny and Offaly. Kilkenny was appearing in their third consecutive All-Ireland final after losing to Offaly in 1998 and to Cork in 1999 ( on the rebels ). They aimed to win their first championship since 1993. In their first championship game since winning the championship in 1998, Offaly lined up. The team's most recent championship encounter had taken place in the Leinster final earlier that year, where Kilkenny defeated Offaly.

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Match report

At 3:30 PM, match referee Willie Barrett threw in the sliotar and the 112th Millennium All-Ireland final got underway. Right from the throw-in, the Kilkenny men tore into the game. Offaly errors, so atypical of them throughout the late 1990s,[ citation needed ] were capitalised on by the Kilkenny defenders and their forwards.[ tone ] Kilenny's D.J. Carey needed only six minutes to make his mark on this decider when he pounced on a mistake from Offaly corner-back Niall Claffey to score Kilkenny's opening goal. Carey's sixth-minute goal was followed three minutes later by a Henry 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. The last twenty-five minutes of the opening half saw Offaly get into the groove and score seven more points, five of which came from Johnny Dooley frees. Offaly's only real goal chance, a ground stroke from Michael Duignan, went narrowly wide in the eighteenth minute. Kilkenny, however, created several opportunities to add to their two early goals and soon after Charlie Carter bagged a third goal for ‘the Cats’ four minutes before half-time. At the interval, despite Offaly's eighteen scoring chances to Kilkenny's fifteen, ‘the Cats’ had a ten-point lead of 3-10 to 0-9.

At the beginning of the second half, the Offaly selectors made some tactical changes. Wing-back Brian Whelahan and corner-forward Michael Duignan swapped positions while John Troy was brought from the substitutes' bench. For the second time Shefflin was the man on hand to hit the fourth goal after latching onto a brilliant long clearance from substitute Canice Brennan and kicking the sliothar past Stephen Byrne from close range. In the fifty-ninth minute Johnny Pilkington clawed one back for Offaly when his shot went past James McGarry. An injury-time goal by substitute Eddie Brennan was the final decider as Kilkenny defeated their Leinster rivals by 5-15 to 1-14. [3] 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. [4]

Match details

Kilkenny 5-15 1-14 Offaly
H. Shefflin (2-2)
D. J. Carey (1-4)
C. Carter (1-3)
D. Byrne (0-4)
E. Brennan (1-0)
J. Hoyne (0-1)
A. Comerford (0-1)
(Report) 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. Whelahan (0-1)
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 61,493
Referee: Willie Barrett (Tipperary)
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KILKENNY:
GK1 James McGarry
RCB2 Michael Kavanagh
FB3 Noel Hickey
LCB4 Willie O'Connor (c)
RWB5 Phil Larkin
CB6 Eamonn Kennedy
LWB7 Peter Barry
MD8 Andy Comerford
MD9 Brian McEvoy
RWF10 Denis Byrne
CF11 John Power
LWF12 John Hoyne
RCF13 Charlie Carter
FF14 D. J. Carey
LCF15 Henry Shefflin
Substitutes:
16 Canice Brennan
17 Eddie Brennan
OFFALY:
GK1 Stephen Byrne
RCB2 Simon Whelahan
FB3 Kevin Kinahan
LCB4 Niall Claffey
RWB5 Brian Whelahan
CB6 Joe Errity
LWB7 Kevin Martin
MD8 Johnny Dooley
MD9 Ger Oakley
RWF10 Johnny Pilkington
CF11 Gary Hanniffy
LWF12 Brian Murphy
RCF13 Michael Duignan
FF14 John Ryan
LCF15 Joe Dooley
Substitutes:
16 David Franks
17 John Troy
18 Paudie Mulhaire

MATCH RULES

References

  1. "GAA: Goal-hero Carey named man of the match". 11 September 2000.
  2. "Barrett will referee final". Irish Times. 8 August 2000. Retrieved 16 November 2009.
  3. "Goal hungry Kilkenny play Cat and mouse with Offaly". Irish Independent. 11 September 2000.
  4. "Majestic Kilkenny obliterate Offaly". Irish Times. 10 September 2000. Archived from the original on 11 February 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2011.