{"id":310787,"date":"2026-02-22T02:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310787\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:21:22","slug":"pictures-joy-for-loreto-kilkenny-as-theyre-crowned-all-ireland-champions-again-page-1-of-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310787\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURES: Joy for Loreto Kilkenny as they&#8217;re crowned All-Ireland champions again &#8211; Page 1 of 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scoring\u00a0burst in the opening minutes of each half from Lucy Boyd put Loreto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/gaa\/2021496\/round-up-st-kieran-s-and-cbc-kilkenny-go-in-search-of-all-ireland-semi-final-spots.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kilkenny<\/a> in the ascendancy in Gortnahoe yesterday afternoon and on their way to retain the Allianz Corn Sceilge All-Ireland senior camogie title at the expense of Ursuline Thurles whom they also defeated in the 2024 final. &#8211; PICTURES BELOW<\/p>\n<p>It was Loreto\u2019s fourth successive crown and 11th since their first 16 years ago. They were good value for their victory with their defence shutting out the threat posed by Tipperary senior player Caoimhe Stakelum and Alice Butler. The Doheny twins commanded the midfield battle particularly in the first half, while Boyd, Holly Ryan and Shauna Mahoney created problems throughout for the under pressure Thurles defence.- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/gaa\/2021335\/loreto-kilkenny-and-ursuline-thurles-battle-it-out-for-all-ireland-glory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FULL MATCH SUMMARY HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CLICK &gt; TO SCROLL THROUGH PICTURES COURTESY OF INPHO\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/T1276632-1771701415663.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1187\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scoring\u00a0burst in the opening minutes of each half from Lucy Boyd put Loreto Kilkenny in the ascendancy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22287,61,60,12969,76748,145678,43],"class_list":["post-310787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-camogie","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-kilkenny-camogie","tag-loreto-kilkenny","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310787","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=310787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}