galway won the leinster hurling final this year.
galway won the leinster hurling final this year.
who won the leinster hurling final this year?
galway
1918 proved to be another successful year for mackey in both codes. wexford were the masters of provincial football once again as they defeated louth by four points. it was mackey’s sixth consecutive leinster football medal. he also had success on the hurling field this year as wexford defeated dublin giving mackey a second leinster hurling title. both the hurlers and footballers were successful in the subsequent series of games and reached the all-ireland final. the all-ireland football final saw wexford take on tipperary in yet another novel encounter. a close-scoring game saw wexford just about secure a victory by 0-5 to 0-4. it was mackey’s fourth all-ireland medal and an unparalleled record fourth title in-a-row for wexford. the all-ireland hurling final also gave wexford the chance of joining cork and tipperary in the unique situation of being double all-ireland winners. that game saw limerick provide the opposition, however, the hurlers were not able to match the munster men’s scoring skills. a score line of 9-5 to 1-3 gave victory to limerick.
paddy mackey
kilkenny's path to the all-ireland hurling final turned out to be a more straight forward affair in comparison to waterford. kilkenny's leinster championship campaign started off in o'moore park, portlaoise on 15 june 2008 against offaly. the match turned out to be a very one-sided affair with henry shefflin scoring 11 points on his return from a long term injury. kilkenny eventually ran out easy winners on a scoreline of kilkenny 2–24 offaly 0–12. kilkenny moved onto the leinster hurling final where they would face a wexford side who took a replay to defeat dublin in the other semi-final. as in previous year, the leinster final also turned out to be a one sided affair. wexford stuck with kilkenny for the first half but the cats pulled away in the second half, essentially killing off wexford's challenge with 4 goals in the second half. kilkenny became leinster champions for the ninth time in ten years on a scoreline of kilkenny 5–21 wexford 0–17.
2008 all-ireland senior hurling championship final