{"id":26515,"date":"2025-09-17T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26515\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:47:10","slug":"martin-breheny-why-hurling-needs-tidying-up-rucks-galore-players-throwing-the-sliotar-and-rules-being-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26515\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: Why hurling needs tidying up \u2013 \u2018rucks\u2019 galore, players throwing the sliotar and rules being ignored"},"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\">More TV coverage of club scene highlights issues that must be addressed<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Galway and Dublin players contest possession in a 'ruck' during the 2021 Leinster SHC semi-final. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a0d9f9cb-1c8a-43fb-a6dd-7c9242025f19.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)\">Galway and Dublin players contest possession in a &#8216;ruck&#8217; during the 2021 Leinster SHC semi-final. Photo: 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)\">Between Clubber TV\u2019s extensive coverage and TG4\u2019s continued commitment, the GAA club championships are available to an increasingly large audience \u2013 a welcome development enjoyed by many people at home and abroad.<\/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)\">There\u2019s so much to choose from that it can be mesmerising, although presumably most viewers tune in when they have a direct interest through their own club or one from their county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More TV coverage of club scene highlights issues that must be addressed Galway and Dublin players contest possession&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[764,61,60,22188,112],"class_list":["post-26515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-croke-park","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-martin-breheny","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515","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=26515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}