2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final

2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final
Event2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Kilkenny Tipperary
1–18 4–17
Date5 September 2010
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
Man of the MatchLar Corbett
RefereeMichael Wadding (Waterford)
Attendance81,765
WeatherDull with Light Rain
15 °C (59 °F)[1]
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The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 113th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 5 September 2010 and was a repeat of the 2009 final with Kilkenny taking on Tipperary. Kilkenny were attempting to win a fifth All-Ireland title in-a-row, a feat never achieved in either hurling or Gaelic football. This has been referred to as the "Drive for Five".[2] The game was watched by more than 80,000 in the stadium as well as a global audience on TV, radio, etc.[3] The Final attracted the highest ever Irish viewership for an All Ireland Hurling Final peaking at 1.236 million viewers in the final minutes of the match, with an average audience of over one million people during the game which was shown live on RTÉ2.[4] The match was won by Tipperary by a score of 4–17 to 1–18.[5][6]

  1. ^ [1] . Met Éireann, Daily data 5/9/10
  2. ^ Kilkenny v Tipperary SHC final preview Archived 7 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine. 4 September 2010.
  3. ^ Kilkenny aim for historic All-Ireland title. 5 September 2010.
  4. ^ "RTÉ – Highest ever viewership for Hurling Final". clane.news finch.ie. 13 September 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Rampant Tipp deny Cats immortality". Irish Independent. 5 September 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
  6. ^ "Kilkenny 1–18 4–17 Tipperary". BBC Sport. 5 September 2010. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.