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Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

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Established
1888 (138 years old)

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Current Season
2025

Current Round
5

Sport
Gaelic

Location
Ireland

Gender
Male

TV Rights
RTÉ,
Sky Sports

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24 May 26	Wexford GWexford GAA Hurling	-	Galway GAGalway GAA Hurling
24 May 26	Kildare GKildare GAA Hurling	-	Offaly GAOffaly GAA Hurling
24 May 26	Dublin GADublin GAA Hurling	-	Kilkenny Kilkenny GAA Hurling
16 May 26	Offaly GAOffaly GAA Hurling	-	Wexford GWexford GAA Hurling
16 May 26	Kilkenny Kilkenny GAA Hurling	-	Kildare GKildare GAA Hurling
16 May 26	Galway GAGalway GAA Hurling	-	Dublin GADublin GAA Hurling
10 May 26	Offaly GAOffaly GAA Hurling	-	Kilkenny Kilkenny GAA Hurling
09 May 26	Wexford GWexford GAA Hurling	-	Dublin GADublin GAA Hurling
09 May 26	Kildare GKildare GAA Hurling	-	Galway GAGalway GAA Hurling
26 Apr 26	Galway GAGalway GAA Hurling	32 - 21	Offaly GAOffaly GAA Hurling

Description

The Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurling competition in the province of Leinster, and has been contested every year since the 1888 championship.

The final, usually held on the first Sunday in July, serves as the culmination of a series of games played during May and June, and the results determine which team receives the Bob O'Keeffe Cup. The championship was previously played on a straight knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship; however, as of 2018, the championship involved a round-robin system.

The Leinster Championship is an integral part of the wider GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship. The winners of the Leinster final, like their counterparts in the Munster Championship, are rewarded by advancing directly to the semi-final stage of the All-Ireland series of games. The losers of the Leinster final enter the All-Ireland series at the quarter-final stage, while the third-placed team advances to the preliminary quarter-finals. Each year, the lowest finishing team is relegated to the Joe McDonagh Cup.

Six teams currently participate in the Leinster Championship. Fifteen teams have competed since the inception of the Leinster Championship in 1888.

The title has been won by 6 different counties, all of whom have won the title more than once. The all-time record-holders are Kilkenny, who have won the championship on 75 occasions. Kilkenny are the title holders, defeating Galway by 4-21 to 2-26 in the 2023 final.


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Dublin GAA Hurl		Galway GAA Hurl		Kildare GAA Hur
Kilkenny GAA Hu		Offaly GAA Hurl		Wexford GAA Hur

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