[1] The All-Ireland final was played on 23 July 2023 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Limerick and Kilkenny.

The Joe McDonagh Cup champions and runners-up advance to the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals.

The 3rd placed teams from the Leinster and Munster championships play the Joe McDonagh Cup champions and runners-up.

The participating teams, listed by province, with numbers in parentheses indicating final positions in the 2023 National Hurling League before the championship were: Connacht (1) Leinster (8) Munster (6) Ulster (2) Carlow will be promoted to the 2024 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship.

Limerick Clare Waterford Kilkenny Tipperary Cork RTÉ, the national broadcaster in Ireland, provided the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship with 17 games shown.

[18] For the first time GAAGO also broadcast 9 matches in Ireland as part of a deal that will run to 2027 and had exclusive rights to some games.

After the GAA's broadcasting contract with Sky Sports expired in October 2022 and they did not seek contracts with producers on free-to-air channels such as Virgin Media Sport, GAAGO was the only place to watch certain games of the 2023 Munster Senior Hurling Championship.

[22] On 12 July 2023, senior GAA officials appeared before the Oireachtas Sport and Media Committee to defend the controversial GAAGO coverage of All-Ireland championships, saying broadcasting every championship match on TV was "not realistic" and not in the GAA's "interest".

The panel consisting of Jackie Tyrrell, Brendan Cummins, Donal Óg Cusack, Joe Canning, Shane Dowling, and Ursula Jacob also chose Kyle Hayes as the Sunday game player of the year.