Tipperary 2006 Senior Hurling Championship

The Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship is an annual club competition between the top Tipperary clubs. The winners of the Tipperary Championship qualify to represent their county in the Munster Club Championship, the winners of which go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.

The Tipperary County Champions in 2006 were Toomevara who became champions with a win over Nenagh Éire Óg. The Tipperary senior hurling championship is probably the most complicated system in Ireland as it strives to accommodate 25 teams. A knockout divisional system and group backdoor system has been introduced to accommodate these teams. Before the new system, the county championship was run on a divisional basis with the teams in the divisional finals going into the county quarter-finals and proceeding from there. It may not be long before this system is re-introduced because of the complexity of the current championship.

2006 Divisional Championship

North Tipperary

The North Tipperary Championship is contested by nine teams: Borris-Ileigh, Burgess, Kildangan, Kilruane McDonaghs, Moneygall, Nenagh Éire Óg, Portroe, Roscrea, Toomevara. The championship is a knockout competition with the losers apart from the semi final runner-up entering the County Championship. The winners of the North Championship advance to the quarter final of the County Championship.

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
North Tipperary SHC Preliminary Round	May 7	Nenagh	Burgess	3-14	Kilruane McDonaghs	1-15	[1]
North Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	May 27	Nenagh	Toomevara	2-18	Burgess	3-10	[2]
North Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	May 27	Cloughjordan	Borris-Ileigh	0-17	Nenagh Eire Og	0-14	[3]
North Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	May 26	Nenagh	Kildangan	2-19	Moneygall	2-12	[4]
North Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	May 20	Toomevara	Roscrea	0-19	Portroe	1-9	[5]
North Tipperary SHC Semi Final	July 9	Cloughjordan	Toomevara	1-17	Borris-Ileigh	0-14	[6]
North Tipperary SHC Semi Final	July 2	Nenagh	Kildangan	2-13	Roscrea	1-7	[7]
North Tipperary SHC Final	July 30	Nenagh	Toomevara	1-15	Kildangan	0-12	[8]

Mid Tipperary

The Mid Tipperary Championship is contested by seven teams: Boherlahan-Dualla, Drom-Inch, Holycross-Ballycahill, J.K. Bracken's, Loughmore-Castleiney, Thurles Sarsfields and Upperchurch-Drombane. The championship is a knockout competition with the losers apart from the one semi final runner-up (Upperchurch-Drombane in 2006) entering the County Championship. The winners of the Mid Championship advance to the county quarter final. Drom-Inch receive a bye to the semi final.

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
Mid Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	April 30	The Ragg	Loughmore-Castleiney	1-18	J.K. Bracken's	0-15
Mid Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	May 13	The Ragg	Boherlahan-Dualla	3-12	Holycross-Ballycahill	2-11
Mid Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	May 20	Boherlahan	Thurles Sarsfields	0-15	Upperchurch-Drombane	0-17	[9]
North Tipperary SHC Semi Final	June 14	Templemore	Drom-Inch	1-15	Loughmore-Castleiney	0-10
Mid Tipperary SHC Semi Final	June 18	Holycross	Boherlahan-Dualla	2-15	Upperchurch-Drombane	1-14	[10]
Mid Tipperary SHC Final	July 30	Holycross	Drom-Inch	3-13	Boherlahan-Dualla	0-16

West Tipperary

The West Tipperary Championship is contested by five teams: Cappawhite, Cashel King Cormacs, Clonoulty-Rossmore, Éire Óg Annacarty and Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams. The championship is a knockout competition with the winners advancing to the quarter final of the County Championship. The other four contestants also play in the first phase of the County Championship (group stage).

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
West Tipperary SHC Quarter Final	April 30	Cappawhite	Clonoulty-Rossmore	0-14	Cashel King Cormacs	0-7	[11]
West Tipperary SHC Semi Final	May 20	Tipperary Town	Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams	4-10	Galtee Rovers	0-11
West Tipperary SHC Semi Final	May 27	Dundrum	Clonoulty-Rossmore	3-12	Cappawhite	3-10	[12]
West Tipperary SHC Final	July 9	Golden	Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams	1-14	Clonoulty-Rossmore	0-12	[13]

South Tipperary

The South Tipperary Championship is contested by four teams: Ballingarry, Carrick Swans, Killenaule and Mullinahone. The championship is a 'knockout' competition. However, the three semi-finalists losers going into the County Championship. The winners of the South Championship advance directly to the quarter final of the County championship, while the other three divisional semi-finalists also play in the first phase of the County Championship (group stage).

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
South Tipperary SHC Semi Final	June 10	Clonmel	Mullinahone	0-20	Ballingarry	1-10	[14]
South Tipperary SHC Semi Final	May 28	Clonmel	Killenaule	3-13	Carrick Swans	1-8
South Tipperary SHC Final	July 30	Clonmel	Mullinahone	2-14	Killenaule	1-16	[15]

2006 Tipperary County Championship

The 14 teams defeated in their divisional championship are divided into groups of 4 with the winner of each group going into the next round. The teams that finish bottom in these groups go through to the relegation playoffs.

Group 1

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
June 30	Boherlahan	Thurles Sarsfields	4-13	Cashel King Cormacs	1-14	[16]
July 14	Nenagh	Thurles Sarsfields	1-18	Burgess	3-15	[17]
July 30	Templemore	Burgess	5-19	Cashel King Cormacs	3-10	[18]

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts.	Score Dif.
Burgess	2	2	0	0	8-34	4-28	4	+18
Thurles Sarsfields	2	1	0	1	5-31	4-29	2	+5
Cashel King Cormacs	2	0	0	2	4-24	9-32	0	-23

Group 2

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
June 30	Cashel	Ballingarry	2-15	Holycross-Ballycahill	2-15	[19]
July 3	The Ragg	Nenagh Eire Og	1-13	Galtee Rovers	1-7	[20]
July 9	Cashel	Ballingarry	0-16	Galtee Rovers	1-10
July 14	Templemore	Nenagh Eire Og	1-17	Holycross-Ballycahill	1-11	[21]
July 26	Cashel	Holycross-Ballycahill	2-18	Galtee Rovers	2-13
July 28	Holycross	Nenagh Eire Og	3-18	Ballingarry	4-15	[22]

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts.	Score Dif.
Nenagh Eire Og	3	2	1	0	5-48	6-33	5	+12
Ballingarry	3	1	2	0	6-46	6-43	4	+3
Holycross-Ballycahill	3	1	1	1	5-44	5-45	3	-1
Galtee Rovers	3	0	0	3	4-30	3-47	0	-14

Group 3

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
July 2	Dolla	Kilruane McDonaghs	1-16	Portroe	1-13	[23]
July 8	Toomevara	Loughmore-Castleiney	1-16	Portroe	2-9	[24]
August 1	Moneygall	Loughmore-Castleiney	3-16	Kilruna McDonaghs	2-10	[25]

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts.	Score Dif.
Loughmore-Castleiney	2	2	0	0	4-32	4-19	4	+13
Kilrune McDonaghs	2	1	0	1	3-26	4-29	2	-6
Portroe	2	0	0	2	3-22	2-32	0	-7

Group 4

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
June 30	Littleton	Moneygall	1-20	Carrick Swans	2-13	[26]
July 3	Drombane	Cappawhite	0-10	J.K. Bracken's	1-14
July 8	The Ragg	Moneygall	1-9	Cappawhite	0-8	[27]
July 9	Fethard	J.K. Bracken's	2-16	Carrick Swans	2-10
July 29	Clonmel	Cappawhite	0-18	Carrick Swans	1-11
August 2	Roscrea	Moneygall	4-11	J.K. Bracken's	2-10	[28]

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts.	Score Dif.
Moneygall	3	3	0	0	6-40	4-31	6	+15
J.K. Bracken's	3	2	0	1	5-40	6-31	4	+6
Cappawhite	3	1	0	2	0-36	3-34	2	-7
Carrick Swans	3	0	0	3	5-34	3-54	0	-14

Relegation

The bottom teams in the groups fight out relgation playoffs with the loser going to intermediate status next year. The four teams are Portroe, Galtee Rovers, Carrick Swans and Cashel King Cormacs.

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
Relegation Semi-Final	August 12	The Ragg	Portroe	3-12	Cashel King Cormacs	0-13	[29]
Relegation Semi-Final	August 12	Cashel	Carrick Swans	2-8	Galtee Rovers	0-7
Relegation Final	August 26	Golden	Cashel King Cormacs	1-12	Galtee Rovers	0-9

Galtee Rovers are relegated to intermediate status.

Round 2

In this round the three defeated divisional semi-finalists not in the group stages namely Roscrea, Borris-Ileigh, Upperchurch-Drombane meet the group winners namely Burgess, Loughmore-Castleiney, Nenagh Éire Óg and .Nenagh Éire Óg received a bye to round 3.In round 3 the winners of round 2 will meet the divisional runners-up.

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
August 5	Dolla	Burgess	0-16	Borris-Ileigh	2-12	[30]
August 6	Templemore	Loughmore-Castleliney	1-10	Roscrea	0-8	[31]
August 12 AET	Dolla	Moneygall	2-19	Upperchurch-Drombane	2-19	[32]
August 20	Templemore	Moneygall	4-10	Upperchurch-Drombane	2-8	[33]

Round 3

In this round the four defeated divisional finalists not in the group stages namely Kildangan, Boherlahan-Dualla, Clonoulty-Rossmore and Killenaule meet the winners of round 2.Nenagh Éire Óg received a bye to this round.

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
August 26	Nenagh	Kildangan	0-16	Moneygall	0-15
August 27	The Ragg	Boherlahan-Dualla	2-8	Loughmore-Castleliney	2-18
August 27	The Ragg	Clonoulty-Rossmore	1-6	Borris-Ileigh	3-17	[34]
August 27	Templemore	Killenaule	2-14	Nenagh Eire Og	2-15

Quarter finals

In this round the four divisional winners namely Toomevara, Drom-Inch, Mullinahone and Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams meet the winners of round 3.

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
Quarter Final	September 23	Templemore	Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams	1-11	Nenagh Eire Og	1-17	[35]
Quarter Final	September 23	Templemore	Mullinahone	1-14	Kildangan	1-12	[36]
Quarter Final	September 24	Nenagh	Toomevara	2-17	Loughmore-Castleiney	2-14	[37]
Quarter Final	September 24	Nenagh	Drom-Inch	2-9	Borris-Ileigh	1-11	[38]

Semi finals

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report
Semi Final	October 8	Semple Stadium	Drom-Inch	1-13	Nenagh Eire Og	2-14
Semi Final	October 8	Semple Stadium	Toomevara	3-10	Mullinahone	0-18

Final

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score	Report Report
Final	October 22	Semple Stadium	Toomevara	1-21	Nenagh Eire Og	2-14

External links

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