2026 Tipperary county hurling team season

Tipperary county hurling team

2026 season
Manager	Liam Cahill		Captain	Ronan Maher
All-Ireland SHC	TBD
Munster SHC	TBD
National League	TBD
Top scorer Championship	TBD
Highest SHC attendance	TBD
Lowest SHC attendance	TBD
Standard Kit

The 2026 season will be Liam Cahill's fourth year as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team.

The team will continue a sponsorship for the fifth year with financial services technology solutions company Fiserv but with a new jersey sponsor Clover who are owned by Fiserv and are there point-of-sale platform. ^{[1] [2]} The logo is a four-leaf clover but with three of the leaves silhouetted. ^{[3] [4]}

On 20 January it was announced that Ronan Maher would remain as captain with Jake Morris also returning as vice-captain. ^[5]

The team will start the season as defending All-Ireland champions after defeating Cork by 3–27 to 1–19 in the All-Ireland final on 20 July 2025. ^[6]

2026 senior hurling management team

Liam Cahill will continue as manager for a fourth year after being given a two-year extension in October 2025, with the option of a third year. Toomevara's Michael Bevans will continue as coach with Loughmore Castleiney's Declan Laffan and Clonoulty Rossmore's TJ Ryan also continuing as selectors. David Herity also continued in his role as coaching support for the team ^[7]

2026 squad

At the end of November 2025, manager Liam Cahill announced a training panel with 15 players added to the panel from 2025.

Former All-Star goalkeeper Brian Hogan returned after spending the last three years in Australia, with seven players promoted from the under 20 panel, Mason Cawley (Nenagh Eire Og), Adam Daly (Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams), Joe Egan (Moycarkey/Borris), Cathal English (Father Sheehy’s), Tom Delaney (Borris-Ileigh), Cathal O’Reilly (Holycross/Ballycahill), and Adam Ryan (Arravale Rovers). Adam Hall, Kevin McCarthy, Darragh Tynan, Brian Og O’Dwyer, Charlie Ryan have also been added to the training panel with recalls also for former seniors Jack Leamy and Paddy Creedon.

Four players left the panel, Conor Bowe, Kieran Cummins, Gavin O’Halloran and Danny Slattery. ^[8]

On 20 January, ahead of the start of the National Hurling League, manager Liam Cahill named a panel of 43 players for the league, which included 13 new players added to the panel since last year. Five sets of brothers are included in the panel, the McGrath’s, McCormack’s, and Stakelum’s, joined this year by the McCarthy’s and Morgan’s, with Kevin McCarthy and Aaron Morgan joining their brothers Darragh McCarthy and Craig Morgan in the panel. ^[9]

Noel McGrath returned for his 18th season with Ronan Maher remaining as captain with Jake Morris also returning as vice-captain. ^{[10] [11]}

2026 Munster Senior Hurling League

Summary

The Co-Op Superstores Munster Senior Hurling League began in early January. ^[12] Tipperary played Waterford in their first match of the year on 3 January in Fethard Town Park Grass Pitch. The game had been originally scheduled to take place at the Clonmel Sportsfield at 2pm, but due to a frozen pitch it was changed to Fethard for a 3.15pm start. Tipperary started the game with four starters from the 2025 All-Ireland final win over Cork, Robert Doyle, Michael Breen, Bryan O’Mara and Andrew Ormond, as well as three players who came on as substitutes, Alan Tynan, Oisín O’Donoghue and Darragh Stakelum. Capacity for the match was limited to a maximum of 2,000 supporters and was sold-out. Tipperary scored a goal in the first half when Paddy Creedon fired low to the net and had a 1-11 to 0-7 lead at half-time, and also led by eight points with ten minutes of normal time remaining. However the match ended in a draw, 1-18 to 1-18 with a late Jack Leamy free rescuing the draw for Tipperary. ^[13]

On 11 January, Tipperary played Kerry in their second game of the Munster Hurling League in Austin Stack Park in Tralee. Tipperary needed a 38 point win to reach to the final after Waterford had defeated Kerry by 6-25 to 0-6 four days earlier. ^[14] Manager Liam Cahill included 17 of the 2025 All-Ireland winning panel in the matchday squad and 8 starters from the All-Ireland final win. ^[15] In wet conditions, Kerry had a one point lead at half-time before Oisin O’Donoghue’s scored a goal for Tipperary in the 47th minute with a low shot to the net from an angle with Tipperary going on to win by 1-16 to 1-7, but failing to qualify for the final. ^[16]

Results

3 January

15:15

Munster Senior Hurling League Group A

Tipperary	1–18 – 1–18	Waterford
Paddy McCormack and Jack Leamy (0-4, 4f each); Paddy Creedon (1-1); Darragh Stakelum (0-2); Brian McGrath (0-2, 1f); Robert Doyle, Joe Caesar, Josh Keller, Alan Tynan and Andrew Ormond (0-1 each).	Report Barry Hogan C Martin, R Doyle, M Breen J Caesar, B McGrath, B O’Mara (c) J Keller, A Tynan O O’Donoghue, P McGarry, D Stakelum A Ormond, P Creedon, P McCormack Subs: J Leamy for McCormack (HT); Adam Ryan for Breen (HT); J Fogarty for McGarry (HT); J Egan for A Tynan (35); W Connors for O’Mara (45); A Daly for D Stakelum (48).	R Halloran (0-8, 6f); C Treen (1-3); J Booth (0-2); B Nolan (0-1, 1f); M O’Mathuna, J Power, C Keane, S Walsh (0-1 each).

Fethard Town Park Grass Pitch, Fethard

Referee: C O’Regan (Cork)

11 January

13:00

Munster Senior Hurling League Group A

Tipperary	1–16 – 1–7	Kerry
Darragh McCarthy 0-4f, Oisin O’Donoghue 1-1, Jack Leamy (0-3, 0-2f), Jake Morris, Andrew Ormond 0-2 each, Sam O’Farrell, Paddy McCormack, Josh Keller, Conor Stakelum, all 0-1 each.	Report Rhys Shelly Conor Martin, Bryan O'Mara, Johnny Ryan Joe Caesar, Brian McGrath, Eoghan Connolly Willie Connors, Josh Keller Jake Morris (c), Andrew Ormond, Sam O'Farrell Darragh McCarthy, Oisin O'Donoghue, Paddy McCormack Subs used: Seamus Kennedy for McGrath (12, inj), Conor Stakelum for Connors (HT), Darragh Stakelum for O’Farrell (HT), Jack Leamy for McCarthy (45), Robert Doyle for Ormond (60).	Michael Slattery 1-1, Ronan Walsh 0-4f, Jordan Conway, Luke Rochford 0-1 each.

Austin Stack Park, Tralee

Referee: Niall Malone (Clare)

2026 National Hurling League

Summary

The National Hurling League started in late January with Tipperary's opening game was against Galway, managed by Micheál Donoghue on Saturday 24 January at Semple Stadium. ^[17] The match will be shown live on RTÉ2. ^[18]

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