A row broke out at the end of the Nowlan Park contest and as the rolling maul of wrestling players moved towards the Paddy Grace Stand, at least one individual wearing Kilcormac-Killoughey colours entered the pitch to get involved in the fighting.<\/p>\n
Television images show the fan attempting to throw punches at Ballyhale players before he was eventually restrained by a Kilcormac hurler. A Leinster Council investigation of the incident is expected. <\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed released a statement on Sunday evening: \u201cGarda\u00ed have arrested a man (aged in his 40s) following a public order incident at a Kilkenny sports ground this afternoon, Sunday 9th November 2025. He has since been charged, and is scheduled to appear before the courts at a later date. As this is now before the courts, there is no further information available at this time. Investigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, there was no call for it,\u201d said Kilcormac manager Declan Laffan. \u201cSomebody came in out of the crowd and nobody wants to see that. Whatever happens on the field, whether players are going out or whatever, leave them at it and let that be it and it\u2019ll finish, it\u2019ll play itself out.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, I suppose frustration spilled over, unfortunately we can\u2019t control everybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suppose anybody comes out of the crowd and hits another player, it\u2019s not a good look. But the one thing I\u2019d say, from KK\u2019s point of view, that\u2019s not them as a club.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s the same for Ballyhale, nobody takes any kind of solace in what went on there. It\u2019s not a true representation of both clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ballyhale Shamrocks\u2019 TJ Reid with James Mahon and Colin Spain of Kilcormac-Killoughey. Photograph: Dan Clohessy\/Inpho <\/p>\n
As tempers flared, Shefflin ran down the sideline and could be clearly seen trying to usher his players away from the flashpoint.<\/p>\n
Several autograph-hunting children had also entered the pitch at the final whistle and were unknowingly making their way towards scuffling players but thankfully the row was brought to an end before it escalated further.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed that we were involved in it, to be fair, and I\u2019m sure Kilcormac-Killoughey feel exactly the same way,\u201d said Shefflin.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was unsavoury. We absolutely don\u2019t condone it. As I said, I\u2019m disappointed we were involved in such a situation because the match was over, we didn\u2019t need to get dragged into something like that. <\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t seen it [back]. But it\u2019s not right, because I see my own kids and stuff and they were running down towards them. I\u2019m like, \u2018What is going on here?\u2019 It\u2019s out of control and there\u2019s no place for it whatsoever in the game. We all agree on that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re a fabulous hurling team and we like to play hurling the right way as well. So, it\u2019s disappointing that that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to be talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kilcormac-Killoughey’s Charlie Mitchell has his shot on goal saved by Dean Mason of Shamrocks Ballyhale. Photograph: Dan Clohessy\/Inpho <\/p>\n
The scenes at the end were not in keeping with what had been a well contested sporting provincial quarter-final.<\/p>\n
Kilcormac-Killoughey took the game to Ballyhale from the off and a converted Adam Screeney penalty helped them to a 1-10 to 0-10 half-time advantage.<\/p>\n
But Ballyhale showed all of their class to outscore the three-in-row Offaly champions 0-15 to 0-8 in the second half.<\/p>\n
Ballyhale hit seven first-half wides and also dropped three efforts short but their accuracy in front of the posts increased hugely after the break with only two further wides added.<\/p>\n
Eoin Cody and Adrian Mullen were central to their comeback while TJ Reid was faultless from placed ball, finishing the game with 0-12, 11 from frees.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think today we were taking shots, I can vividly remember one or two lads shooting over the shoulder and not even looking,\u201d added Shefflin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018That\u2019s not the way we want to play.\u2019 People asked what did we say at half-time? But the players kind of noticed themselves. They reacted very well, they weren\u2019t happy with how things had gone in the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kilcormac\/Killoughey’s Conor Mahon and Killian Corcoran of Shamrocks Ballyhale. Photograph: Dan Clohessy\/Inpho <\/p>\n
Kilcormac\u2019s impressive first-half display was built on a solid defensive showing but the pivotal score in the opening period was Screeney\u2019s 25th minute goal. Brian Butler conceded a penalty for holding Conor Mahon\u2019s hurl, and Screeney made no mistake by smacking the sliotar beyond Dean Mason, 1-8 to 0-7.<\/p>\n
Kilcormac goalkeeper Conor Slevin also sent over two monster long-range frees in the first half while Charlie Mitchell caused Ballyhale plenty of problems and had three points to his name at the break.<\/p>\n
But Ballyhale turned the screw on the resumption and scored the first five points of the second half. Screeney missed a scoreable free during that period too and once Ballyhale hit the front, it never looked like they would be stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ran out of steam a little bit because we had put in such huge effort in the first half,\u201d said Laffan. \u201cAnd then I thought there were a couple of dubious calls at bad times.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ballyhale, who last won the Leinster title in 2022, will now play Laois champions Clough Ballacolla in a provincial semi-final in two weeks. <\/p>\n
Ballyhale Shamrocks: Dean Mason; Killian Corcoran, Joey Holden, Brian Butler; Ronan Corcoran (0-1), Richie Reid, Evan Shefflin; Eoin Kenneally (0-1), Adrian Mullen (0-3); Brian Cody, Eoin Cody (0-5), Liam Barron; Paddy Mullen (0-2), TJ Reid (0-12, 11f), Niall Shortall (0-1). Subs: Dara Mason for Butler (43 mins); John Fitzpatrick for B Cody (54 mins); Finnian Shefflin for P Mullen (59 mins); Conor Walsh for Barron (61 mins); Luke Donnelly for Corcoran (62 mins).<\/p>\n
Kilcormac-Killoughtey: Conor Slevin (0-4, 4f); Tom Spain, Jordan Quinn, James Mahon; Enda Grogan, Brecon Kavanagh, Cillian Kiely; Colin Spain, Damien Kilmartin; Jack Screeney (0-1), Adam Screeney (1-5, 1-0 penalty, 0-3f), Daniel Hand (0-1); Charlie Mitchell (0-3), James Gorman (0-1), Conor Mahon (0-1). Subs: Alex Kavanagh for Gorman (39 mins); Ter Guinan for Kilmartin (49 mins); Leigh Kavanagh (0-1) for Hand (55 mins); Thomas Geraghty (0-1) for Mahon (59 mins); Peter Geraghty for Spain (61 mins).<\/p>\n
Referee: Padraig Dunne (Laois).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster club SHC quarter-final: Ballyhale Shamrocks 0-25 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-18 Ballyhale Shamrocks manager Henry Shefflin and Kilcormac-Killoughey boss Declan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49722,42,14611,43,8067,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-131025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-gaa-club-hurling-championship","tag-headlines","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-news","tag-offaly-gaa","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}