{"id":195153,"date":"2025-12-16T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195153\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:57:09","slug":"martin-breheny-all-ireland-club-hurling-championship-needs-to-address-format-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195153\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: All-Ireland club hurling championship needs to address format anomaly"},"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\">Having Galway champions qualifying directly for semi-finals is unfair to three provincial winners\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Loughrea players, including captain Ian Hanrahan, celebrate with the Tom Callinan cup after their county SHC final victory, but the path of Galway champions to the All-Ireland is easier than their rivals. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3f6cae2e-50b1-47a9-afbf-70d44131d11c.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)\">Loughrea players, including captain Ian Hanrahan, celebrate with the Tom Callinan cup after their county SHC final victory, but the path of Galway champions to the All-Ireland is easier than their rivals. Photo: 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)\">Anomalies can be pesky little devils, digging into systems and finding clever ways of staying there.<\/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)\">Even where there is overwhelming evidence against them, they often remain untouched, possibly because nobody wants the hassle of challenging something that has been around for a long time. It\u2019s easier to let it run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having Galway champions qualifying directly for semi-finals is unfair to three provincial winners Loughrea players, including captain Ian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30883,61,60,22188,43],"class_list":["post-195153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-galway-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-martin-breheny","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195153","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=195153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}