One-off leagues for clubs

By Shane Brophy

The Competitions Controls Committee (CCC) of Tipperary County Board have announced details of the County Hurling and Football Leagues which will get underway on the weekend of 12-13 June.

With club games allowed to resume from Monday next, the County Board are wasting no time in getting back in action for the first time since last October.

With the reduced timeframe brought about by the delayed start to the season and with the club championships getting underway in August, the CCC have decided to create a one-off competition based on current senior and intermediate championship gradings, rather than resuming the leagues in both codes, which had barely gotten off the ground in 2020 when the first Covid lockdown was introduced. However, the County Leagues should resume, from their previous placings, in 2022.

In the senior hurling league, the sixteen Dan Breen Cup teams have been divided into four groups, based on geography, however, as Kiladangan and Thurles Sarsfields have opted not to enter a second team and with Burgess not taking part, Carrick Swans have been added to section B in group 2.

The three rounds of the senior and intermediate hurling leagues will be played on the weekends of 13 & 27th June, and 11th July (although two extra weekends are needed for Group B section 2) with semi-finals and finals to be played in late July/early August, while the football league games will be played 20th June, and 4th & 18th July, with finals to follow.