{"id":156021,"date":"2025-11-23T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156021\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:50:10","slug":"ballyhale-shamrocks-book-leinster-shc-final-spot-but-henry-shefflin-a-bit-concerned-after-battle-with-clough-ballacolla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballyhale Shamrocks book Leinster SHC final spot but Henry Shefflin \u2018a bit concerned\u2019 after battle with Clough-Ballacolla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Leinster SHC semi-final: Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-18 Clough-Ballacolla 1-15\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TJ Reid of Ballyhale Shamrocks scores a free at UPMC Nowlan Park. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TJ Reid.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">TJ Reid of Ballyhale Shamrocks scores a free at UPMC Nowlan Park. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was job done for Shamrocks Ballyhale with their final place secured but Henry Shefflin knows that they will have to scale new heights if they are to land a 13th Leinster club SHC title next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He gladly gave Clough-Ballacolla their dues after making it an almighty battle from the first whistle to the last but the performance of his own troops left him &#8220;a bit concerned&#8221; ahead of the decider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster SHC semi-final: Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-18 Clough-Ballacolla 1-15 TJ Reid of Ballyhale Shamrocks scores a free at UPMC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,14611,50284,23501,112],"class_list":["post-156021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-laois-gaa","tag-michael-verney","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156021","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=156021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}