{"id":150334,"date":"2025-11-20T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150334\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:29:07","slug":"bennett-to-be-next-carlow-hurling-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150334\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett to be next Carlow hurling manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballysaggart man Pat Bennett has been named as the new Carlow senior hurling manager following Tom Mullally&#8217;s departure last week.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment is subject to ratification at the next meeting of the county board&#8217;s executive.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett has a wealth of experience as a hurling coach and manager.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently he linked up with Davy Fitzgerald\u2019s backroom team at Antrim last year.<\/p>\n<p>He has also previously worked with Wexford, Waterford and guided Fern&#8217;s, St Aidan\u2019s to the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship title in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been a member of managerial teams Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett\u2019s ratification will come following the departure of previous manager Mullally,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/hurling\/2025\/1114\/1544086-mullally-steps-down-as-manager-of-carlow-hurlers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> who stepped down last week<\/a>. Mullally had enjoyed five very progressive years with the side.<\/p>\n<p>With his track record, passion and knowledge of the game, Bennett\u2019s name would invariably have been in the mix as a future replacement for Mullally but now he gets to lead the team in the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Carlow will operate in Division 1B of the National League next season and will be intent on reclaiming the Joe McDonagh Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballysaggart man Pat Bennett has been named as the new Carlow senior hurling manager following Tom Mullally&#8217;s departure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-150334","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\/150334","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=150334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}