{"id":323016,"date":"2026-03-01T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:34:09","slug":"striving-to-survive-nine-years-on-from-all-ireland-final-galway-and-waterford-scrap-for-league-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323016\/","title":{"rendered":"Striving to survive: Nine years on from All-Ireland final, Galway and Waterford scrap for league survival"},"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\">The optimism around the D\u00e9ise and the Tribesmen has faded and relegation looms for whoever comes out second best in Salthill showdown\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Waterford manager Peter Queally. Photo: Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1a583a84-382e-41b8-a70e-b3d2bafb6d30.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)\">Waterford manager Peter Queally. Photo: Paul Phelan\/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)\">When Galway and Waterford met in the 2017 All-Ireland SHC final, their combined timespan without a MacCarthy Cup win stood at 87 years. In a novel final pairing, without one of hurling\u2019s top three for the first time in 21 years, Galway seized the day.<\/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)\">Waterford\u2019s drought at the time was double that of Galway but All-Irelands aren\u2019t won by petition or compassion. Nine years on, the optimism has faded. The prospects of Waterford being crowned All-Ireland champions this year is rated at 25\/1 by the bookmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The optimism around the D\u00e9ise and the Tribesmen has faded and relegation looms for whoever comes out second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30883,7026,100310,107782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-323016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-galway-gaa","tag-waterford-gaa","tag-allianz-hurling-league","tag-dermot-crowe","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323016","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=323016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}