Galway are in to the minor hurling final following a 0-23 to 0-20 win over Limerick. It was a thrilling contest between two excellent sides that saw the scoreboard tick back and forth with metronomic regularity.

The sides were level at 0-8 each at the break and another 30 minutes of hurling was not enough to separate the teams as they scored another 8 points each in the second half and normal finished at 0-16 apiece.

Galway stretched ahead in the final minutes of extra time and went on to win by 3 points, 0-23 to 0-20.

The result will likely be the subject of much discussion over the coming week as Limerick had a perfectly good point ruled out by Hawk-Eye, early in the first half. Barry Nash hit a score between the posts but it was ruled a miss by the technological system.

Having tasted defeat following extra time there will no doubt be questions raised over the justness of the result as had Nash’s point stood the game may never have made it to extra time.

Limerick's Tom Morrissey and Darragh O'Donoghue of Galway
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