{"id":172734,"date":"2025-12-03T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172734\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:25:09","slug":"niall-ohalloran-departs-as-cork-senior-hurling-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172734\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall O&#8217;Halloran departs as Cork senior hurling coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Niall O\u2019Halloran has left the Cork senior hurling management after three months, The Echo understands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Ballinhassig native was only confirmed as the coach as part of new manager Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s management ticket back in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">O\u2019Halloran is widely regarded as a top-class coach. It was seen as a very positive appointment. He was O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s preferred choice to take up the coaching mantle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">O\u2019Halloran was Cork minor hurling coach during John Considine\u2019s time in charge during the 2018 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4883451_8_articleinlinemobile_2818955_1_.jpg\" alt=\"New Cork senior hurling manager Ben O'Connor. Picture: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" title=\"New Cork senior hurling manager Ben O'Connor. Picture: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" class=\"card-img\"\/>New Cork senior hurling manager Ben O&#8217;Connor. Picture: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Ballinhassig man has since enjoyed county success coaching the likes of Bandon, \u00c9ire \u00d3g, Fr O\u2019Neill&#8217;s and Lisgoold. He has also been involved with MTU Cork in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s unclear at this point whether O\u2019Connor will replace O\u2019Halloran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ronan Curran, Terence McCarthy and William Biggane are part of the new set-up as the Rebels look to bounce back in 2026 after two All-Ireland final defeats on the bounce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niall O\u2019Halloran has left the Cork senior hurling management after three months, The Echo understands. The Ballinhassig native&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-172734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172734","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=172734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}