Busy spring for Tipperary underage teams

The dates for the 2023 Munster Under 20 and Minor Hurling and Football Championships have been confirmed.

After Kerry pulled out of both the oneills.com Munster Under 20 Hurling Championship and Electric Ireland Munster GAA Minor Hurling Championship, both competitions will be run in a round-robin format involving five counties (Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford) using the same home and away schedule as the 2023 Munster GAA Senior Hurling Championship.

Under 20 Hurling

2022 runners-up Tipperary will start away to Clare on Wednesday 22nd March with Limerick beginning the defence of their title with a trip to play Waterford, with Cork having the bye.

All Under 20 Hurling round robin games taking place on Wednesday’s in March and April with Tipperary having a bye in round 2 before travelling Cork in round 3 on Wednesday on 5th April. Two weeks later Tipp will host Limerick in Thurles before wrapping up on 26th April at home to Waterford.

Following the completion of the round-robin games, the 2nd & 3rd place teams will contest the Munster semi-final on May 10th with the winners playing the first place team in the Munster Final on May 17th.

Minor Hurling

Defending Munster & All-Ireland Minor Hurling champions Tipperary will open their campaign away to Clare on Tuesday, March 21st. Waterford will host Limerick on the same evening with all Minor Hurling round robin games taking place on Tuesday’s in March and April.

Tipperary will have a bye in round 2 before travelling to Cork for round 2 on 4th April, then welcoming Limerick and Waterford to Thurles on 18th & 25th April respectively.

Following the completion of the round-robin games, the 2nd & 3rd place teams will contest the Munster semi-final on May 2nd with the winners playing the first place team in the Munster Final on May 9th.

Under 20 Football

The draws for the EirGrid GAA Football Under 20 Munster Championship will take place in January.

The straight knockout format will see quarter-finals scheduled to take place on Monday, April 10th with the semi-finals a week later on Monday, April 17th. The Munster Under 20 Football Final is fixed to take place on Monday, April 24th.

Minor Football

The 2023 Electric Ireland Munster GAA Football Minor Championship will run on a similar format to 2022 with Phase 1 seeing a Round-Robin series of games involving Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford. The running order of these games will be confirmed in January with the round-robin fixtures scheduled for Thursday’s 13th, 20th & 27th April.

The top two teams in Phase 1 will contest the Phase 1 Final on Thursday, May 11th.

On the same night, Kerry will host Cork in the quarter-final with the quarter-final winner playing the Round Robin final runners-up in the first semi-final while the quarter-final loser will play the Round Robin winners in the second semi-final on Thursday, May 18th.

The Munster Minor Football Final is fixed for Thursday, June 1st.