{"id":239583,"date":"2026-01-11T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239583\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:40:09","slug":"easkey-suffer-heartbreaking-all-ireland-final-defeat-as-talisman-andy-kilcullen-controversially-sent-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239583\/","title":{"rendered":"Easkey suffer heartbreaking All Ireland final defeat as talisman Andy Kilcullen controversially sent off"},"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\">Easkey 0-18 Kilbrittain 0-19\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McHugh of Easkey in action against Bertie Butler of Kilbrittain during the AIB GAA Hurling All-Ireland Junior Club Championship final match between Easkey of Sligo and Kilbrittain of Cork at Croke Park in Dublin. Picture: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fde570ed-d79f-49a8-86c2-cd76174e8a70.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)\">Rory McHugh of Easkey in action against Bertie Butler of Kilbrittain during the AIB GAA Hurling All-Ireland Junior Club Championship final match between Easkey of Sligo and Kilbrittain of Cork at Croke Park in Dublin. Picture: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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)\">Heroic Easkey were hit hard by fickle fate as they lost their talisman Andy Kilcullen to a disputed red card 40 minutes into this pulsating affair at an icy Croke Park, in what was a heartbreaking All Ireland Junior Hurling final defeat to Kilbrittain of Cork.<\/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)\">Kilcullen\u2019s departure was like an arrow through the heart of the gallant Sea Blues, but who could and should have taken the title in his immeasurable absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Easkey 0-18 Kilbrittain 0-19 Rory McHugh of Easkey in action against Bertie Butler of Kilbrittain during the AIB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[121438,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-239583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gerry-mclaughlin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239583","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=239583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}