{"id":178365,"date":"2025-12-06T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178365\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:44:13","slug":"ben-stafford-secures-leinster-club-shc-title-for-st-martins-as-they-deny-ballyhale-with-last-minute-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178365\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stafford secures Leinster club SHC title for St Martin\u2019s as they deny Ballyhale with last-minute winner"},"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\">St Martin\u2019s 0-24 Ballyhale Shamrocks 2-17\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Martin's players celebrate with the O'Neill Cup in Croke Park.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0e618825-2ea6-4e0c-8ce1-6ca29887f168.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)\">St Martin&#8217;s players celebrate with the O&#8217;Neill Cup in Croke Park.<\/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)\">Ben Stafford wrote his name into Wexford hurling folklore forever with his last-minute point sending St Martin\u2019s into winter wonderland with a first Leinster club SHC title in Croke Park last night.<\/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)\">The Wexford kingpins delivered an awesome display with the O\u2019Connor brothers magnificent in attack as Rory bagged 0-11 while Jack delivered a man-of-the-match performance with six sensational points from play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Martin\u2019s 0-24 Ballyhale Shamrocks 2-17 St Martin&#8217;s players celebrate with the O&#8217;Neill Cup in Croke Park. Ben&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[764,61,60,3771,23501,112,14612],"class_list":{"0":"post-178365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-croke-park","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kildare-gaa","12":"tag-michael-verney","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wexford-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178365","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=178365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}