{"id":183388,"date":"2025-12-09T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:46:06","slug":"hurling-club-semis-set-for-parnell-park-and-thurles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183388\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurling club semis set for Parnell Park and Thurles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AIB All-Ireland Club Hurling Championship semi-finals will take place on Sunday, 21 December, with Parnell Park and FBD Semple Stadium the venues.<\/p>\n<p>At 1.30pm, Galway&#8217;s Loughrea will take on Sleacht N\u00e9ill from Derry in Donnycarney.<\/p>\n<p>The Connacht side captured their fourth county title when they retained their crown against St Thomas&#8217;s on 2 November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/hurling\/2025\/1101\/1541604-loughrea-pip-st-thomas-to-keep-hold-of-galway-crown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning on a scoreline of 1-15 to 1-14<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sleacht N\u00e9ill, ran out deserved victors to clinch their second provincial crown in as many years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/hurling\/2025\/1129\/1546527-slaughtneil-power-past-st-johns-to-claim-ulster-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 13-point victory<\/a> over Antrim champions St John&#8217;s in front of the RT\u00c9 cameras on 29 November.<\/p>\n<p>Semple Stadium at 3.30pm will see Waterford kingpins Ballygunner face first-time Leinster winner, St Martin&#8217;s from Wexford.<\/p>\n<p>The D\u00e9ise outfit were too strong for Clare&#8217;s \u00c9ire \u00d3g Inis in the Munster final, winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/hurling\/2025\/1130\/1546564-hutchinson-on-fire-as-ballygunner-regain-munster-throne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a damp squib<\/a> encounter by nine points.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday&#8217;s Leinster finale at Croke Park was, in marked contrast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/hurling\/2025\/1206\/1547598-stafford-scores-late-as-st-martins-light-up-croke-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a thriller<\/a> as substitute Ben Stafford fired over the winning point at the death, so claiming a maiden title for Martin&#8217;s at Shamrock Ballyhale&#8217;s expense.<\/p>\n<p>Croke Park will host the All-Ireland final on Sunday, 18 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AIB All-Ireland Club Hurling Championship semi-finals will take place on Sunday, 21 December, with Parnell Park and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-183388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183388","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=183388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}