{"id":209775,"date":"2025-12-25T05:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:27:18","slug":"i-had-my-words-with-him-we-parked-it-there-tipperarys-willie-connors-reveals-hard-conversation-with-liam-cahill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209775\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had my words with him. We parked it there\u2019 \u2013 Tipperary\u2019s Willie Connors reveals hard conversation with Liam Cahill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Willie Connors of Tipperary lifts the Liam MacCarthy cup after victory in the 2025 All-Ireland final over Cork at Croke Park. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54136cc0-795e-4fff-ab25-f4ce999915f2.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)\">Willie Connors of Tipperary lifts the Liam MacCarthy cup after victory in the 2025 All-Ireland final over Cork at Croke Park. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/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)\">Willie Connors knew that he and his Tipperary teammates were in a good place heading into this year\u2019s All-Ireland SHC final against Cork, so much so that he was cracking jokes beforehand.<\/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)\">Connors is one of the great characters within the Premier dressing room and the Kiladanagan clubman was intent on making the most of his first start on the biggest day of the hurling calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willie Connors of Tipperary lifts the Liam MacCarthy cup after victory in the 2025 All-Ireland final over Cork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5582,61,60,23501,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-209775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-tipperary-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-michael-verney","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209775","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=209775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}