{"id":274526,"date":"2026-01-31T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:56:07","slug":"icymi-kilkennys-all-ireland-heroes-reunite-to-relive-fairytale-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274526\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Kilkenny&#8217;s All-Ireland heroes reunite to relive fairytale at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6qMH2vuiw3XVw9STeVQrjr?si=f4f4863a705d4c70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kilkenny<\/a> won their 36th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/191\/gaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">All-Ireland<\/a> and 11th under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/pictures---videos\/1853169\/gallery-kilkenny-secure-36th-all-ireland-with-battling-display.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brian Cody<\/a> in dramatic fashion in 2015, beating Galway 1-22 to 1-18 to secure their second title in a row.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/gaa\/1853132\/podcast-all-ireland-memories-and-stories-with-kilkenny-legends.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Cats<\/a> trailed 0-14 to 1-8 at half-time but after hitting the front in the 47th minute never looked back as they ran out four points winners.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/gaa\/1853152\/kilkenny-legend-claims-cats-fans-will-probably-be-shouting-for-tipperary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Liam MacCarthy&#8217;s<\/a> fourth trip home in five years, a journey unfortunately he has failed to make since.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/kilkenny-sport\/1979728\/recognisable-kilkenny-gaa-face-proves-he-s-king-of-the-dartboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">READ NEXT:\u00a0Recognisable Kilkenny GAA face proves he&#8217;s king of the dartboard\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day also marked the end of an unusual trend as it halted a streak of three final replays in a row (2012, 2013 and 2014) after 53 years without one.<\/p>\n<p>Over the festive period, many of that team from a decade ago (plus a couple of older legends!) met for a night of pints and nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/191\/gaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOR MORE KILKENNY GAA NEWS, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How many All-Ireland medals are in this picture?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilkenny won their 36th All-Ireland and 11th under Brian Cody in dramatic fashion in 2015, beating Galway 1-22&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4183,61,60,14611,58031,43],"class_list":["post-274526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-kilkenny-hurling","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274526","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=274526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}