2015 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship

Dates

17 April 2015 – 18 October 2015

Teams

Sponsor

Molloy Environmental Systems

Champions

Coolderry (30th title)
Brian Carroll (captain)
Johnny Kelly (manager)

Runners-up

St. Rynagh's
Francis Forde (manager)

Relegated

Brosna Gaels

Tournament statistics

Matches played

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The 2015 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship was the 117th staging of the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Offaly Cound Board in 1896. The championship began on 17 April 2015 and ended on 18 October 2015.

Kilcormac/Killoughey were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by St. Rynagh's at the semi-final stage.^[1]^[2] Shamrocks entered the championship as a promoted team.

On 18 October 2015, Coolderry won the championship following a 2-15 to 1-16 defeat of St. Rynagh's in the final. This was their 30th championship title, their first in four championship seasons.^[3]

Teams

All but one of the twelve teams from the 2014 championship will participate in the top tier of Offaly hurling in 2015.

Shamrocks, who defeated St. Rynagh's by 0-22 tp 1-6 in the final of the intermediate championship in 2014, will gain automatic promotion to the senior championship.^[4]

Similarly, Kinnitty defeated Drumcullen by 0-17 to 0-12 in the 2014 senior relegation play-off, and so Drumcullen were relegated to the intermediate grade for 2015.

Results

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	For	Ag.	Diff.	Pts.
1	St. Rynagh's	5	5	0	0	115	59	56	10
2	Seir Kieran	5	4	0	1	101	91	10	8
3	Belmont	5	2	1	2	90	82	8	5
4	Tullamore	5	2	0	3	116	92	24	4
5	Ballinamere	5	1	1	3	93	126	-33	3
6	Shamrocks	5	0	0	5	68	133	-65	0

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	For	Ag.	Diff.	Pts.
1	Coolderry	5	5	0	117	73	44	10
2	Kilcormac/Killoughey	5	4	1	90	66	24	8
3	Birr	5	3	2	131	90	41	6
4	Shinrone	5	2	3	99	88	11	4
5	Kinnitty	5	1	4	95	97	-2	2
6	Brosna Gaels	5	0	5	51	169	-118	0

Relegation play-offs

12 September 2015 Semi-final	Kinnitty	6-24 - 0-10	Shamrocks	St. Finian's Park

13 September 2015 Semi-final	Ballinamere	w/o - scr.	Brosna Gaels

4 October 2015 Final	Shamrocks	w/o - scr.	Brosna Gaels

Quarter-finals

12 September 2015 Quarter-final	Coolderry	1-19 - 1-9	Tullamore	O'Connor Park

12 September 2015 Quarter-final	St. Rynagh's	1-20 - 0-16	Shinrone	O'Connor Park

13 September 2015 Quarter-final	Belmont	1-16 - 2-17	Kilcormac/Killoughey	St. Brendan's Park

13 September 2015 Quarter-final	Seir Kieran	2-13 - 1-18	Birr	St. Brendan's Park

Semi-finals

4 October 2015 Semi-final	Coolderry	2-15 - 1-10	Birr	O'Connor Park

4 October 2015 Semi-final	St. Rynagh's	1-22 - 1-16	Kilcormac/Killoughey	O'Connor Park

Final

18 October 2015 Final	Coolderry	2-15 - 1-16	St. Rynagh's	O'Connor Park
	D Murray 0-6 (5fs); K Connolly 1-2; J Brady 1-0; B Carroll 0-3 (1f); K Brady 0-2; A Corcoran, D King 0-1 each	Report	S Wynne 0-13 (12fs); B Conneely 1-0; R Hughes, S Quirke, C Hernon 0-1 each.	Referee: D Cooke (Crinkill)

References

↑ "Three-in-a-row for Kilcormac". Hogan Stand. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
↑ "Rynagh's end K/K's Wynne-ing run". Hogan Stand. 4 October 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
↑ "Late drama in Offaly as Coolderry seal their 30th SHC title". The 42. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
↑ "Shamrocks are Molloy Environmental Intermediate Hurling Champions". Offaly GAA website. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.

Offaly Senior Hurling Championships

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