{"id":276606,"date":"2026-02-02T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:36:10","slug":"were-gone-like-soccer-corks-ben-oconnor-says-genuine-hurling-people-want-to-see-a-good-hard-physical-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276606\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re gone like soccer\u2019 \u2013 Cork\u2019s Ben O\u2019Connor says \u2018genuine hurling people\u2019 want to see \u2018a good, hard physical game\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cork manager Ben O'Connor, right, and Galway manager Miche\u00e1l Donoghue shake hands\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3337381.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)\">Cork manager Ben O&#8217;Connor, right, and Galway manager Miche\u00e1l Donoghue shake hands<\/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)\">Cork hurling manager Ben O\u2019Connor says there is a danger of hurling being turned into soccer if GAA authorities continue to introduce new rules and regulations.<\/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)\">O\u2019Connor, speaking after their 2-20 to 1-21 comeback win in a fiery contest with Galway in Pearse Stadium, said hurling people want to see \u201ca good, hard physical game\u201d and that there is a real danger of taking \u201cthe manliness\u201d out of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork manager Ben O&#8217;Connor, right, and Galway manager Miche\u00e1l Donoghue shake hands Cork hurling manager Ben O\u2019Connor says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-276606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276606","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=276606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}