1932 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
| Dates |
28 February – 17 March 1932 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Teams |
Connacht Leinster Munster | ||
| Champions | Leinster (2nd title) | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 2 | ||
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The 1932 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the sixth Inter-Provincial Championship, an annual hurling competition contested by three of the four provinces of Ireland. The tournament was held between 28 February and 17 March 1932.
The championship was contested by Connacht, Leinster and Munster. Leinster won the championship for the first time since 1927 and for the second time overall.
Format
Semi-final: (1 match) This was a single match between Connacht and Leinster. One team was eliminated at this stage while the winning team advanced to the final.
Final: (1 match) This winners of the semi-final, Leinster and Munster, who received a bye to this stage, contested this game.
This game was notable in that the first ever point scored directly from a sideline cut occurred in it. Paddy Drennan of Kilcotton, Laois and Leinster recalled that "I took a cut in from the Cusack Stand side about 50 yards from the end line and sent it over the bar, the ball landing near the Railway wall". Central Council had changed the rule the day before the game which prohibited scoring directly from a line ball.
Leinster team: Jim Dermody (Captain) (Kilkenny), Ned Tobin (Laois), Peter O'Reilly (Kilkenny), Charlie McMahon (Dublin), Paddy Larkin (Kilkenny), Tom Teehan (Dublin), Jim Walsh (Dublin), Eddie Byrne (Kilkenny), Tommy Leahy (Kilkenny), Paddy Drennan (Laois), Steve Hegarty (Dublin), Paddy Phelan (Kilkenny), Dan Dunne (Kilkenny), Din O'Neill (Dublin), Matty Power (Kilkenny). Subs - Jim Grace (Kilkenny) for Paddy Larkin, John O'Dwyer (Dublin), T. Quinlan (Dublin), Mick Larkin (Kilkenny), Jerry Leahy (Kilkenny) Joe Loughran (Meath), Podge Byrne (Kilkenny). Lory Meagher (Kilkenny) and Christy Griffin (Dublin) were selected to play but cried off.
Munster team: Eudie Coughlan (Captain), Paddy Collins, George Garrett, Willie Clancy, Dinny Barry Murphy, Mick Aherne (Cork), Tommy O’Meara, Phil Purcell, Tommy Treacy, Phil Cahill, Martin Kennedy (Tipperary), John Joe Doyle (Clare), Charlie Ware, Paddy Browne (Waterford), Micky Cross, Paddy Clohessy (Limerick), Jim O’Regan, Jim Hurley (Cork), Larry Blake (Clare), Micky Fitzgibbon (Limerick).
Results
Railway Cup
Sources
- Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).
- Fennelly, Teddy and Dowling, Paddy, "Ninety Years of GAA in Laois" (Leinster Express, 1975)