Dublin county hurling team

The Dublin county hurling team represents Dublin in hurling and is governed by Dublin GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship and the National Hurling League.

Dublin

Sport:	Hurling
Irish:
County board:	Dublin GAA
Manager:	Niall Ó Ceallacháin
Home venue(s):	Parnell Park
Recent competitive record
Current All-Ireland status:	SF in 2025
Last championship title:	1938
Current NHL Division:	1B (3rd in 2025)
Last league title:	2011
First colours Second colours

Dublin's home ground is Parnell Park, Donnycarney. The team's manager is Niall Ó Ceallacháin.

The team last won the Leinster Senior Championship in 2013, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1938 and the National League in 2011.

History

Dublin won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) in 1938, defeating Waterford in the final.

Dublin played in the 1961 All-Ireland SHC final.^[1]

In the 2005 National Hurling League, Dublin experienced relegation to Division 2, while its minor side won the Leinster MHC title for the first time since 1983. In the 2006 National Hurling League, Dublin gained promotion to Division 1 after victory over Kerry in the Division 2 final.^[2] Following some indifferent displays in the 2006 All-Ireland SHC, Dublin saved its status in the top flight of hurling counties and again contested the Liam MacCarthy Cup in 2007. Though a favourite for relegation in the 2007 National Hurling League, Dublin avoided the drop by finishing in fourth position. In 2009, former Clare player Anthony Daly was appointed manager of Dublin.^[3] Under his management, Dublin contested the 2009 Leinster SHC final, but lost by two goals to Kilkenny.^[4]

Liam Rushe in action for the Dublin hurlers against Galway in the Allianz Hurling League

Dublin won the 2011 National Hurling League title after a 12-point win over Kilkenny in May 2011, the team's first national title since winning the 1938 All Ireland SHC.

On 7 July 2013, Dublin defeated Galway by 2–25 to 2–13 (scoring 2–21 from play) to win the Leinster SHC final. This was the first time since 1961 that Dublin had won the competition. The goalkeeper from the 1961 team presented John McCaffrey, the Dublin captain, with the Bob O'Keeffe trophy.^{[citation needed]}

On 21 June 2025, Dublin defeated Limerick, the favourite for the All-Ireland SHC, by 2–24 to 0–28 to take a place in the 2025 All-Ireland SHC semi-finals.^[5] However, Dublin then heavily lost the All-Ireland SHC semi-final to Cork.^[6]

Support

Dublin's hurling team has a fervent following who travel in significant numbers to matches in the provinces. The 2000s brought a revival in the fortunes and popularity of Dublin hurling, and Dublin underage teams also had success at that time.^[7][8]

Rivalries

Dublin shares rivalries with fellow provincial sides Kilkenny, Offaly and Wexford and Galway

Panel

Team as per Dublin vs Galway in round 5 of the Leinster SHC, 26 May 2024

No. Player Position Club 1 Seán Brennan Goalkeeper Cuala 2 John Bellew Right Corner-back Lucan Sarsfields 3 Eoghan O'Donnell Full-back Whitehall Colmcille 4 Paddy Smyth (c) Left corner-back Clontarf 5 Chris Crummey Right half-back Lucan Sarsfields 6 Conor Donohoe Centre-back Erins Isle 7 Paddy Doyle Left half-back Naomh Barróg 8 Brian Hayes Midfield Kilmacud Crokes 9 Conor Burke Midfield St Vincent's 10 Danny Sutcliffe Right half-forward St Jude's 11 Donal Burke Centre-forward Na Fianna 12 Seán Currie Left half-forward Na Fianna 13 Fergal Whitely Right corner-forward Kilmacud Crokes 14 Cian O'Sullivan Full-forward St Brigid's 15 Ronan Hayes Left corner-forward Kilmacud Crokes

No. Player Position Club 16 Eddie Gibbons Goalkeeper Kilmacud Crokes 17 James Madden Corner back Ballyboden St Enda's 18 Daire Gray Wing back Whitehall Colmcille 19 Seán Gallagher Midfielder Naomh Barróg 20 Darragh Power Midfielder Fingallians 21 Mark Grogan Wing back Kilmacud Crokes 22 Dara Purcell Midfielder Kilmacud Crokes 23 Colin Currie Wing forward Na Fianna 24 Paul Crummey Wing forward Lucan Sarsfields 25 Jake Malone Midfielder Cuala 26 Liam Murphy Corner forward Cuala

^INJ Player has had an injury which has affected recent involvement with the county team.
^RET Player has since retired from the county team.
^WD Player has since withdrawn from the county team due to a non-injury issue.

Management team

Appointed on a three-year term in September 2024:^[9]

• Manager: Niall Ó Ceallacháin
• Backroom: David Curtin, Donal McGovern, Nigel O'Hara

Managerial history

Micheál Donoghue, pictured here while in charge of Galway in 2016, was Dublin manager between 2022 and 2024.

Key

*	Interim manager

Dates	Name	Origin
1982–1988	Jimmy Boggan	Crumlin
1988–1993	Lar Foley	St Vincent's
1993–1996	Jimmy Gray	Na Fianna
1996–2000	Michael O'Grady
2001–2002	Kevin Fennelly
2003	Marty Morris	O’Tooles
2003–2005[10]	Humphrey Kelleher
2005	John Bailey[11] – Mick O'Riordan – Tommy Ryan[12][contradictory]	Interim
2005–2008	Tommy Naughton	Scoil Uí Chonaill
2008–2014	Anthony Daly
2014–2017	Ger Cunningham
2017–2018	Pat Gilroy	St Vincent's
2018–2022	Mattie Kenny[13]
2022–2024[14][15][16]	Micheál Donoghue
2024–	Niall Ó Ceallacháin	Na Fianna

Players

Notable players

For individual player details, see Category:Dublin inter-county hurlers.

• Conal Keaney: 2001–2020^[17][18]

Records

Most appearances

Further information: All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship records and statistics § All-time appearances

Top scorers

Further information: All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship records and statistics § All-time top scorers

All Stars

Dublin has 8 All Stars, as of 2013. 7 different players have won, as of 2013.

1971: Mick Bermingham
1990: Brian McMahon
2009: Alan McCrabbe
2011: Liam Rushe Gary Maguire
2013: Peter Kelly, Liam Rushe^2nd, Danny Sutcliffe

Honours

Dublin's hurlers have failed to replicate the success of the county's football side, having won the Senior All-Ireland Hurling final on 6 occasions, most recently in 1938. In terms of All-Ireland titles, they are significantly behind hurling's big three of Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary. Their six titles do however place them fifth in the overall winners list, jointly tied with Wexford.

Dublin have won the Leinster Championship on 24 occasions (the second highest total of any side), although they remain well behind Kilkenny, who have won the Leinster Championship 70 times.

Dublin have won the National Hurling League three times: in 1929, 1939 and 2011. This places them joint seventh (with Clare) on the overall winners list, having won 16 fewer titles than top-ranked Tipperary.^[19]

National

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  • Winners (6): 1889, 1917, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1938
  • Runners-up (15): 1892, 1894, 1896, 1906, 1908, 1919, 1921, 1930, 1934, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1961
• National Hurling League
  • Winners (3): 1928–29, 1938–39, 2011
  • Runners-up (5): 1925–26, 1929–30, 1933–34, 1940–41, 1945–46

Provincial

• Leinster Senior Hurling Championship
  • Winners (24): 1889, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1934, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1961, 2013
  • Runners-up (37): 1888, 1893, 1895, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1932, 1933, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1990, 1991, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2021, 2024

Fingal

Main article: Fingal county hurling team

In 2007, the GAA announced that a hurling team from Fingal (north county Dublin) would compete in parallel to the main Dublin team,^[20] to encourage hurling in an area of growing population where the game has not been strong.^[21] While players from Fingal are eligible for the main Dublin team, non-Fingal players cannot play for Fingal.^[21] The new team competed in the Nicky Rackard Cup in 2008,^[21] and the Kehoe Cup in 2009.^[22] They played in the National Hurling League up until 2016 when the Fingal Hurling project was disbanded.