Brian Hayes levels it again for the Rebel County after five minutes.

Aidan O'Connor converts a 65 against the breeze to extend Limerick's early lead.

Immediately levelled by Diarmaid Healy as Cork respond.

Peter Casey opens the scoring in the Munster final. The Limerick forward splits the posts after two minutes.

The first chance of the afternoon falls to Aaron Gillane, but the Limerick forward pulls his effort wide of the posts.

Referee James Owens gets us under way at Páirc Uí Chaoimh as the sliotar is thrown in for the 2026 Munster hurling final.

Cork have named an unchanged starting side for Sunday's Munster final at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Manager Ben O'Connor keeps faith with the XV that secured top spot in the round-robin standings with a comprehensive victory over Clare last time out.

Ciarán Joyce and Darragh Fitzgibbon, both starters in Cork's championship win over Limerick in April, are absent from the matchday panel. Joyce remains sidelined with an ACL injury, while Fitzgibbon continues his recovery after recently undergoing surgery for appendicitis.

Limerick initially made one change from the side that defeated Tipperary in their final round-robin fixture.

Barry Nash comes into the full-back line in place of Mike Casey, who takes his place among the substitutes, but in a late switch, Shane O'Brien takes the place of Adam English.

Aaron Gillane and Darragh O'Donovan both retain their places after returning from injury in recent weeks, having missed Limerick's round-robin defeat by Cork in round two, as John Kiely's side bid to reclaim the Munster title following last year's dramatic penalty shootout defeat to the Rebels.

Cork: Patrick Collins; Niall O'Leary, Damien Cahalane, Sean O'Donoghue; Eoin Downey, Robert Downey, Mark Coleman; Tim O'Mahony, Tommy O'Connell; Barry Walsh, Shane Barrett, Diarmuid Healy; Alan Connolly, Brian Hayes, William Buckley.

Subs: Paudie O'Sullivan, Ger Millerick, Eoin Roche, Cormac O'Brien, Michael Mullins, Hugh O'Connor, Brian Roche, Alan Walsh, Shane Kingston, Seamus Harnedy, Padraig Power.

Limerick: Nickie Quaid; Sean Finn, Dan Morrissey, Barry Nash; Diarmaid Byrnes, William O'Donoghue, Kyle Hayes; Shane O'Brien, Darragh O'Donovan; Gearoid Hegarty, Cian Lynch, Cathal O'Neill; Aaron Gillane, Aidan O'Connor, Peter Casey.

Subs: Colin Ryan, Mike Casey, Colin Coughlan, Fintan Fitzgerald, Matthew Fitzgerald, Hugh Flanagan, Ethan Hurley, Tom Morrissey, Adam English, Donnacha O Dalaigh, David Reidy.

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Galway claimed their first Leinster Senior Hurling Championship title since 2018 with an emphatic 4-29 to 4-15 win over Dublin at Croke Park.

Micheál Donoghue's side were better from start to finish and had 11 different scorers with Tom Monaghan starring with seven points from play, but they had big performances throughout.

While Dublin enjoyed a better second quarter to the game when getting to within one, they just couldn't get anything going consistently in the second period and never really threatened to mount a charge as they were being out-hustled around the middle.

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In yesterday's All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship, Antrim have booked a direct route to the semi-finals with a 2-16 to 1-9 win over Kerry.

That result makes it two wins from two for the Saffrons in Group One who are now out of sight at the top due to a 1-11 to 1-11 draw between Down and Derry, which means they have the head to head tie-breaker on the Kingdom.

While the winner of today will claim the Mick Mackey Cup - named after a famed Limerick man - they will also move directly into the All-Ireland semi-finals, set for the weekend of 6/7 July.

However, today's defeated team will face a quarter-final against Offaly on the weekend of 20/21 June.

As mentioned, last year's decider was decided on penalties, but that will not be the case today as provincial finals that finish level after extra-time will now go to a replay.

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Good afternoon and welcome to our coverage of today's Munster Senior Hurling Championship final.

After the excitement of the league phase, we are left with a familiar fixture as Cork and Limerick get set to battle for the Mick Mackey Cup.

Last year, Cork ended Limerick's bid for a seventh-straight provincial success when coming through on penalties at the Gaelic Grounds.

Limerick exacted some revenge by taking down the Rebels in this year's league final, but Cork turned the tables in the Munster Championship with a win on home turf.

However, Limerick recovered and once again we are ready for a meeting of these neighbours and rivals.

We'll have live text updates from today's game, so let's hope it's another classic between these two.