All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2026 (Munster & Leinster Championships, Liam McCarthy Cup)

Munster games have been poor enough this year in truth

Is the 2026 version of the munster hurling championship one of the worst if not the worst that we've seen..?

Definitely not a vintage Munster championship by Round Robin standards.

Leinster on the other hand was intriguing with a number of unforseen results. You would have had very long odds on the cats being eliminated.

They're awful today.....2 hiding so far and counting

I agree, woeful to watch. As a game I've been saying that the weight and reduced rims on the sliotar has to be looked at in hurling. Sick of looking at some of these 30 points plus matches. They can be mind numbing. If I was at Cork V Clare today I'd be looking for my money back!

A very poor Munster championship

It would be a great idea two groups seeded and mixed based on league and championship performance. But the problem is there is too much mystic about Munster hurling so that is unlikely to happen.

And yet we have the people who couldn't even beat them crying about being eliminated.

This will be the 2 most obvious Munster finalists in a long time. They are just ways way ahead of the pack.

A tight close lower standard game is far better to watch a procession of one elite team over another under performing elite team. Cork learnt nothing today. It will be revenge mission for Limerick in 2 weeks time. It would be sweet to deny them at home.

Oh of course, but when you mix the fact that the Munster Championship has been dull and Leinster Championship has been of a lower standard, mixing it together makes for sh*te overall.

It's important that it was Offaly to put Kilkenny out.

Offaly are the product of careful planning and a long term project. Something Kilkenny don't seem to have and badly need.

Not winning an All Ireland in 28 years is not the same as being shte for that long. But I agree it took them way too long to see the warning signs. The sooner it comes the better so Kilkenny really need to see them now or they will be waiting 20+ years like Cork or even worse.

The 80/90s were a bit of an aberration for a county like Offaly. Where they are now is a perfectly respectable position for a county of their resources.

Two four team groups and if needs be call them the Munster and Leinster conferences - play home and away. Top two qualify - 1 from Munster Conference v 2 from Leinster Conference. So potential 8 games to win All Ireland which is the same as Leinster runners up and third placed team at the moment. Bottom two teams to play off for relegation. Have same eight team set-up at each level below with promotion/relegation of one team to/from each level.

Let the provincial councils own each conference if they're that worked up about cash. All things being equal, I'd guess that the eight teams, before this season started, would probably have expected to be the five Munster plus Kilkenny, Galway and Dublin. I could see crowds still being very much drawn to four team home and away conferences of say:

Kilkenny; Limerick; Clare; Dublin

Cork; Galway; Waterford; Tipperary

Probably expect Limerck and Dublin to come out of one and Cork and Galway to come out of the other. And Kilkenny and Tipperary to now be facing a relegation play-off.....!