{"id":310651,"date":"2026-02-22T00:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:33:14","slug":"classy-limerick-put-all-ireland-champions-to-the-sword-in-thurles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310651\/","title":{"rendered":"Classy Limerick put All Ireland champions to the sword in Thurles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699a11ca27a51.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Limerick picked up their second win of the National League season on Saturday evening.\n        <\/p>\n<p>John Kiely&#8217;s men had fifteen points to spare over All Ireland champions Tipperary at Semple Stadium with the game finishing up 0-36 to 0-21 in favour of the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick showed their intent from the start as they raced into an nine points lead midway through the first half on an 0-11 to 0-2 scoreline.<\/p>\n<p>The gap was thirteen at the break with Limerick&#8217;s young guns leading the charge, Aidan O&#8217;Connor notched 0-7 with Shane O&#8217;Brien scoring 0-3 while Adam English chipped in with two points. While the hosts missed a penalty with the last play before the short whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Tipperary were reduced to fourteen men just seconds into the second half when Willie Connors was shown a straight red card for a dangerous challenge on Darragh O&#8217;Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick continued to keep the scoreboard ticking over in the second half putting over sixteen more points with the man advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for John Kiely&#8217;s men is a trip to O&#8217;Connor Park to take on Offaly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sport Via Getty Images Limerick picked up their second win of the National League season on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-310651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-limerick-radio","11":"tag-limerick-today","12":"tag-limericks-live95fm","13":"tag-live-95","14":"tag-live95fm","15":"tag-live95fm-homepage","16":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310651","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=310651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}