St Martin’s are the Leinster hurling champions for the first time.<\/p>\n
The Wexford team beat Kilkenny kingpins Ballyhale Shamrocks in the Leinster Club Senior Hurling Championship final on Saturday at Croke Park.<\/p>\n
The full-time score was St.Martin’s 0-24 Ballyhale Shamrocks 2-17.<\/p>\n
The match took place shortly after the conclusion of the Leinster Club Senior Football Championship between Athy of Kildare and Ballyboden St Enda’s of Dublin, which saw Ballyboden win a\u00a02-18 to 1-14 victory.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Higgins spoke on Newstalk with the full-time report.<\/p>\n
“St Martin’s from Wexford led by the minimum at half-time, despite conceding an 8th-minute goal to Brian Cody.<\/p>\n
“The second half was a rip-roaring contest with the sides level six times.<\/p>\n
“The O’ Connor brothers were sparkling for St Martin’s while Nile Shortall raised a Shamrock Ballyhale’s second goal in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n
“As we hit the hour mark, Richie Reid for Shamrocks is back in front with a long-range effort.<\/p>\n
“Rory O’Connor tied the sides again before Ben Strafford hit a magical winner from in front of the Cusack stand.”<\/p>\n
The Wexford champions were playing their first-ever Leinster final and had never played at Croke Park before.<\/p>\n
The Ballyhale Shamrocks have won more Leinster championships than anyone else, and have also been crowned All-Ireland champions more than any club in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Martin’s are the Leinster hurling champions for the first time. The Wexford team beat Kilkenny kingpins Ballyhale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-178590","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\/178590","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=178590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}