{"id":330142,"date":"2026-03-05T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330142\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:57:09","slug":"three-limerick-senior-hurlers-lead-ul-to-all-ireland-freshers-hurling-championship-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330142\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Limerick senior hurlers lead UL to All-Ireland Freshers Hurling Championship glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ppsfinancial.ie\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PPS_ad_GAA-1772701675884.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"317\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE University of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/245\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick&#8217;s<\/a> remarkable dominance of colleges hurling continued apace as their Freshers team won their All-Ireland title last night, defeating ATU Galway 2-21 to 1-15.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the Fitzgibbon Cup and the second-string Intermediate Championship, the Plassey production line shows no sign of abating as the UL first years cruised to national glory.<\/p>\n<p>After an astounding 44-point 8-32 to 0-12 win over UCC in the semi-final, a side that included Limerick panellists Matthew Fitzgerald, Hugh Flanagan and James Coughlan added to the UL trophy cabinet with this win at Liam Mellows GAA club in Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Cormac Fitzpatrick and Conor Ralph sealed the comeback win last night for UL.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/hurling\/2023151\/limerick-players-to-the-fore-as-ul-win-yet-another-colleges-title.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick players to the fore as University of Limerick win yet another colleges hurling title<\/a><\/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<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE University of Limerick&#8217;s remarkable dominance of colleges hurling continued apace as their Freshers team won their All-Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1965,61,60,43,19290],"class_list":["post-330142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hurling","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-university-of-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330142","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=330142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}