{"id":136770,"date":"2025-11-13T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136770\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:38:15","slug":"shefflin-condemns-unsavoury-scenes-at-nowlan-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136770\/","title":{"rendered":"Shefflin condemns ‘unsavoury scenes’ at Nowlan Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ballyhale Shamrocks boss Henry Shefflin and Kilcormac-Killoughey manager Declan Laffan both condemned a melee between their teams after their Leinster club SHC quarter-final in UPMC Nowlan Park.<\/p>\n

Players from both teams jostled and grappled each other following the final whistle, before a supporter wearing a Kilcormac jersey ran onto the pitch.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed subsequently confirmed to RT\u00c9 that a man in his 40s had been arrested and charged “following a public order incident”.<\/p>\n

Shamrocks’ Shefflin, whose team had fought back from a half-time deficit to win, told RT\u00c9 Sport: “I’m delighted with the second-half performance [but] not very happy with the unsavoury scenes we saw at the end, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

“That’s very disappointing that a club like Ballyhale were involved in that. I’m sure Kilcormac would feel the exact same way.<\/p>\n

“No place for it in the game and I’m just very disappointed with that.”<\/p>\n

Kilcormac-Killoughey bainisteoir Laffan said: “I know the tackle [on Adrian Mullen] obviously instigated it, but probably a lot of frustration, and somebody came in out of the crowd and nobody wants to see that.<\/p>\n

“Whatever happens on the field, whether the players are going at it or whatever, leave them at it and it’ll play itself out. Unfortunately, we can’t control everybody.<\/p>\n

“The one thing I’d say from Kilcormac-Killoughey’s point of view, that’s not them as a club and it’s the same for Ballyhale.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a true representation of both clubs. Unfortunately, it just happened and we have to move on.”<\/p>\n

The 13-time Leinster champions, with All-Ireland winning player and manager Shefflin back in charge, trailed 1-10 to 0-10 at the interval after Adam Screeney’s penalty.<\/p>\n

But Ballyhale almost doubled their opponents’ tally in the second half, to win 0-25 to 1-18<\/a> and set up a provincial semi-final against Clough-Ballacolla in two weeks’ time.<\/p>\n

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\nNiall Shortall of Shamrocks Ballyhale (L) is tackled by Cillian Kiely of Kilcormac-Killoughey<\/p>\n

“The first half [was only] OK and I probably half expected that after the county final,” said Shefflin.<\/p>\n

“I think they handled TJ [Reid] and Niall [Shortall] and Paddy [Mullen] inside pretty well and we didn’t get many shots on Conor [Slevin, Kilcormac goalkeeper].<\/p>\n

“But I thought second half they played very well and 15 points to eight was a reflection on how we performed.<\/p>\n

“Kilcormac obviously came down here to do a job and they performed very well. They’re a lovely hurling side.<\/p>\n

“I thought, come the second half, we’d hopefully respond and I feel we did that pretty well.<\/p>\n

“Adrian [Mullen] and Ronan [Corcoran] had a big impact in the middle third and Dean [Mason] hit some wonderful puckouts as well.”<\/p>\n

“We should have been another four or five up at half-time”<\/p>\n

Laffan rued what he called Kilcormac-Killoughey’s “poor wides versus a lot of theirs. Our wides were, I won’t say free shots, but I probably felt we should have been another four or five up at half-time and really put them under the cosh.<\/p>\n

“But when we went in only three [ahead] and then they got control, we kind of lost our steam a little bit, because we had put in such huge effort in the first half.<\/p>\n

“And then I suppose I thought there was a couple of dubious calls at bad times. But look, some days you get them, some days you don’t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballyhale Shamrocks boss Henry Shefflin and Kilcormac-Killoughey manager Declan Laffan both condemned a melee between their teams after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-136770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136770","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=136770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}