Attendances for the opening two rounds of the Munster senior hurling championship are up over 15% on last year’s corresponding four fixtures. Close to 100,000 - 95,553 - have been at the games thus far in Walsh Park, Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Semple Stadium and LIT Gaelic Grounds. That’s almost 15,000 more than the 81,085 figure for the matches in Cork, Ennis, Limerick and Thurles in 2018. The 11,012 crowd that took in last Sunday week’s Waterford-Clare game was lower than expected although the Banner did return tickets. Last year’s Munster SHC attracted a total of almost 250,000, the highest attendance for a round game being the 34,607 that watched the Cork-Limerick draw in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on a Saturday evening.

Source: Irish Examiner May 20, 2019 16:41 UTC