What happens if the GAA All-Ireland hurling final is a draw? Is there extra-time and a replay this year?

CORK are taking on Tipperary in a huge GAA All-Ireland Hurling final at Croke Park in Dublin.

The match is as Cork aim to win the big one for the first time in 20 years.

The All-Ireland final is underway in Dublin

However, The Rebels have lost FOUR finals since they last collected the Liam MacCarthy Cup back in 2005 – including last year’s showpiece where they were edged out by a single point.

Cork now come up against noisy Munster neighbours Tipp who are trying to bridge a six-year gap themselves having not won the title since 2019.

What happens if the All-Ireland Hurling final is a draw?

Should the All-Ireland final finish as a draw then 20 minutes of extra-time will be played, at 10 minutes a half.

Then if the match is still drawn the final will go to a replay.

The replay is scheduled for two weeks after the final on Saturday, August 2.

What has been said?

Cork manager Pat Ryan – who lost in the bonus period last year – has been among those to criticise the finals going to extra-time.

Ryan said: “It becomes a lottery [going straight into extra-time].

“We had fellas going down injured, we lost players during the game, Clare lost players – Shane O’Donnell went off, Peter Duggan went off.

“We lost Rob Downey, we lost Seamus Harnedy and Niall O’Leary. It’s just a bit of a lottery.

“A replay would be the fairest but look they were the rules coming into it, we had planned for it, we had spoken about it.

“Going forward, I think it’s a thing that the GAA should change.”;