1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship

All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship 1968
All Ireland Champions
Winners	Cork (2nd win)
Captain	Pat Hegarty
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up	Kilkenny
Captain	John Kinsella
Provincial Champions
Munster	Cork
Leinster	Kilkenny
Ulster	Not Played
Connacht	Not Played
← 1967 1969 →

The 1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the fifth staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship for players under the age of twenty-one since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964..

Tipperary were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the provincial stage. Cork won the title after defeating Kilkenny by 2-18 to 3-9 in the final.^[1]

Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship

Leinster final

Kilkenny v Dublin

21 July 1968 Final	Kilkenny	4-10 – 5-04	Dublin	Nowlan Park
15:30	B O'Sullivan 2-1, W Harte 1-3, P Keyes 1-3, T Grant 0-2, P Dowling 0-1.		L Hannebury 2-1, N Kinsella 1-1, J Hackett 1-0, P McCarthy 1-0, T Grealish 0-1, H Dalton 0-1.	Referee: J Maddock (Wexford)

Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship

Munster first round

Tipperary v Waterford

7 April 1968 First round	Tipperary	4-05 – 3-03	Waterford	Leahy Park, Cashel
	J Flanagan 1-2, S Hogan 1-1, M Ryan 1-0, D Fay 1-0, T Delaney 0-2.		J Geoghegan 2-1, B Scanlon 1-0, N Kelly 0-1, M Hickey 0-1.	Referee: G Fitzgerald (Limerick)

Limerick v Cork

7 April 1968 First round	Limerick	3-06 – 7-08	Cork	Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
15:30	N Hayes 1-0, P Bennis 1-0, É Grimes 1-0, J Foley 0-2, P Doherty 0-2, C Shanahan 0-1, R Ryan 0-1.		S Murphy 2-0, P Curley 2-0, M Malone 2-0, B Meade 1-2, J Murphy 0-3, N O'Keeffe 0-2, P Ring 0-1.	Referee: M Slattery (Clare)

Galway v Clare

16 May 1968 First round	Galway	2-05 - 4-02	Clare	Duggan Park
	I Madden 1-0, T Quinn 1-0, P Fahy 0-3, J Connolly 0-2.		J McNamara 2-1, M Culligan 1-0, P O'Leary 1-0, S O'Donnell 0-1.

Munster semi-finals

Kerry v Cork

15 May 1968 Semi-final

Kerry

3-02 – 8-11

Cork

Fitzgerald Stadium

Clare v Tipperary

11 July 1968 Semi-final	Clare	0-09 – 2-07	Tipperary	Cusack Park
	N Casey 0-3, D Fitzgerald 0-2, J McNamara 0-2, P Russell 0-1, P Higgins 0-1.		N O'Dwyer 0-4, D Fahy 1-0, T Delaney 1-0, J Walsh 0-1, M Ryan 0-1, S Hogan 0-1.	Referee: G Fitzgerald (Limerick)

Munster final

Tipperary v Cork

4 August 1968 Final	Tipperary	1-13 – 4-10	Cork	Seán Treacy Park
15:30	P Morrissey 1-1, T Delaney 0-4, N Dwyer 0-3, J Walsh 0-2, S Hogan 0-2, D Ryan 0-1.		P Hegarty 1-1, P Ring 1-1, H O'Sullivan 1-0, S Murphy 1-0, B Meade 0-3, P Moylan 0-3, J Murphy 0-2.	Referee: G Fitzgerald (Limerick)

All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship

All-Ireland semi-final

Antrim v Cork

18 August 1968 Semi-final

Antrim

4-17 – 2-04

Cork

Fr. Healy Park

All-Ireland final

Cork v Kilkenny

8 September 1968 Final	Cork	2-18 – 3-09	Kilkenny	Walsh Park
15:30	B Meade 1-12, P Curley 1-2, P Hegarty 0-2, R Lehane 0-1, P Moylan 0-1.		W Harte 1-8, P Lalor 1-0, P Keyes 1-0, J Kinsella 0-1.	Attendance: 7,000 Referee: S Power (Waterford)

References

^ "Cork GAA profile". Hogan Stand. 13 September 2010. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

All-Ireland Under-21 and Under-20 Hurling Championships

Under-21 Championship, 1964–2018
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