{"id":238128,"date":"2026-01-10T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:59:11","slug":"corks-kilbrittain-are-all-ireland-champions-after-pipping-13-man-easkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238128\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s Kilbrittain are All-Ireland champions after pipping 13-man\u00a0Easkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A point from a free in injury-time by Mark Hickey edged Kilbrittain to All-Ireland junior glory, just pipping Sligo&#8217;s Easkey who had two players sent off in the second half at Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hickey scored nine points in all, five from frees, with man of the match Ronan Crowley also adding four from play.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4926926_1_articleinlinemobile_3318572.jpg\" alt=\"Kilbrittain captain Philip Wall lifts the cup. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" title=\"Kilbrittain captain Philip Wall lifts the cup. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Kilbrittain captain Philip Wall lifts the cup. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Talisman Andrew Kilcullen, who had accumulated six points, was first to go for Easkey eight minutes into the second half, for a high tackle, though it looked more like a clash of helmets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;s incredible. There is no feeling like this. I&#8217;m so proud of the lads,&#8221; said manager Joe Ryan on TG4, who paid generous tribute to the honest and effort of Easkey for competing to the end with 13 players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Devastated Easkey manager Michael Conway said &#8220;it was an awful way to lose&#8221;, but lauded his players for dying with their boots on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4926896_14_articleinlinemobile_2863701-VB_DSC2777.jpg\" alt=\"Luke Griffin of Kilbrittain in action against James Weir and Fionn Connolly of Easkey. Pic: \u00a9INPHO\/James Lawlor\" title=\"Luke Griffin of Kilbrittain in action against James Weir and Fionn Connolly of Easkey. Pic: \u00a9INPHO\/James Lawlor\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Luke Griffin of Kilbrittain in action against James Weir and Fionn Connolly of Easkey. Pic: \u00a9INPHO\/James Lawlor<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Report to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A point from a free in injury-time by Mark Hickey edged Kilbrittain to All-Ireland junior glory, just pipping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,43,850],"class_list":["post-238128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238128","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=238128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}