1945 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

1945 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
All-Ireland champions
Winning team	Tipperary (13th win)
Captain	John Maher
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Kilkenny
Captain	Peter Blanchfield
Provincial champions
Munster	Tipperary
Leinster	Kilkenny
Ulster	Not Played
Connacht	Not Played
Championship statistics
Top Scorer	Jim Langton (0-28)
All-Star Team	See here
	← 1944 1946 →

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1945 was the 59th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Kilkenny 5-6 to 3-6 in the final.^[1]

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:

The winners of the Leinster Championship advanced directly to the first All-Ireland semi-final.
Galway, a team who faced no competition in the Connacht Championship, entered the championship at the All-Ireland semi-final stage where they played the Leinster winners.
The winners of the Munster Championship advanced directly to the second All-Ireland semi-final.
The winners of the Ulster Championship advanced directly to the second All-Ireland semi-final where they played the Munster champions.

Results

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

20 May 1945 Quarter-final	Offaly	5-3 – 4-6	Laois	St. Brendan's Park

27 May 1945 Quarter-final replay	Laois	3-4 – 5-3	Offaly	O'Moore Park

3 June 1945 Semi-final	Kilkenny	–	Offaly	Nowlan Park

1 July 1945 Semi-final replay	Kilkenny	4-15 – 2-1	Offaly	Nowlan Park

15 July 1945 Final	Kilkenny	5-12 – 3-4	Dublin	Croke Park
	J Langton 0-8, J Gargan 2-0, S O'Brien 1-1, T Walton 1-1, J Mulcahy 1-0, L Reidy 0-1, D Kennedy 0-1.		J Gray 1-1, D Cantwell 1-1, M Ryan 1-0, M Lyons 0-2.

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

First round

10 June 1945 First round	Tipperary	3-06 – 0-03	Waterford	Páirc Mac Gearailt, Fermoy
	J Coffey 2-0, Dwyer 1-1, P Doyle 0-1, H Goldsboro 0-1, J Maher 0-1, T Wall 0-1, T Brennan 0-1.		Moylan 0-1, V Baston 0-1, Barron 0-1.

Semi-finals

24 June 1945 Semi-final	Clare	3-03 – 3-06	Limerick	Cusack Park, Ennis
	J Solon 2-1, McAllister 1-0, Frost 0-1, D Solon 0-1.		M Mackey 1-2, J Mackey 1-1, J Clohessy 1-0, D Stokes 0-2, Herbert 0-1.

1 July 1945 Semi-final	Tipperary	2-13 – 3-02	Cork	Thurles Sportsfield, Thurles
	T Doyle 1-4, M Ryan 1-2, J Maher 0-2, T Brennan 0-2, J Coffey 0-1, T Ryan 0-1, H Goldboro 0-1.		J Quirke 1-1, J Lynch 1-0, P Healy 1-0, S Condon 0-1,

Final

15 July 1945 Final	Tipperary	4-03 – 2-06	Limerick	Thurles Sportsfield, Thurles
	M Ryan 1-3, O'Keeffe 1-0, E GLeeson 1-0, J Dwyer 1-0.		M Mackey 1-2, P McCarthy 1-0, J Mackey 0-1, D Stokes 0-2, J Clohessy 0-1.	Attendance: 25,000

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

29 July 1945 Semi-final	Kilkenny	5-3 – 2-11	Galway	St. Brendan's Park

5 August 1945 Semi-final	Tipperary	5-9 – 1-6	Antrim	Croke Park

2 September 1945 Final	Tipperary	5-6 – 3-6	Kilkenny	Croke Park
				Attendance: 69,456 Referee: V Baston (Waterford)

References

↑ "All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Roll of Honour". The GAA website. Archived from the original on 5 September 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.

Sources

Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
Qualification	via Connacht via Leinster via Munster via Ulster via the Christy Ring Cup
Championships	1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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