{"id":225831,"date":"2026-01-03T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225831\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:44:12","slug":"athenrys-defensive-line-holds-firm-to-claim-all-ireland-glory-against-st-finbarrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225831\/","title":{"rendered":"Athenry\u2019s defensive line holds firm to claim All-Ireland glory against St Finbarr\u2019s"},"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\">Athenry (Galway) 0-14 St Finbarr\u2019s (Cork) 0-12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Athenry captain Dervla Higgins lifts the Bill and Agnes Carroll Cup after her side's victory in the AIB All-Ireland Camogie Senior Club Championship final replay against St Finbarr's of Cork. Photo by Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sports3315812.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)\">Athenry captain Dervla Higgins lifts the Bill and Agnes Carroll Cup after her side&#8217;s victory in the AIB All-Ireland Camogie Senior Club Championship final replay against St Finbarr&#8217;s of Cork. Photo by Ben McShane\/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)\">Clodagh Burke will be hailed as the player who scored the winner, but it was Athenry\u2019s impregnable defence that powered the westerners to All-Ireland glory in Thurles.<\/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)\">Olwen Rabbitte, Dervla Higgins and goalkeeper Laura Freeney were impeccable along the spine of the Galway club\u2019s defence as they conceded the first point and then turned around to lead by 0-7 to 0-3 after 25 minutes of play on frosty soil in Thurles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athenry (Galway) 0-14 St Finbarr\u2019s (Cork) 0-12 Athenry captain Dervla Higgins lifts the Bill and Agnes Carroll Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-225831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225831","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=225831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}