{"id":338946,"date":"2026-03-10T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:18:09","slug":"is-it-time-to-ask-will-kilkenny-emerge-from-leinster-this-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338946\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it time to ask will Kilkenny emerge from Leinster this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> I  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41805533.html\">wrote here Saturday about Limerick\u2019s system<\/a>, and it was the difference again for them <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41806061.html\">against Cork in the Gaelic Grounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Limerick had a more experienced team out than their opponents, and to be fair to Cork they put it up to them for 50-odd minutes, but Limerick\u2019s faith in that system paid off. They play to it for the 70, 75 minutes, or however long the game lasts, and when they got the chance Saturday they put up 2-5 without reply and killed the game off. One of the benefits they\u2019ll get from the win is more faith in that system &#8211; if that were needed.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4976285_1_org_Irish_Examiner_modal.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tUnlimited access starts here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Try from \u20ac1.50 a week.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;font-size: 18px;line-height: 22px;padding-left: 10px;padding-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/cork-sport_topic-5206315.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A collection<\/a> of the latest sports news, reports and analysis from Cork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I wrote here Saturday about Limerick\u2019s system, and it was the difference again for them against Cork in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2110,1964,61,60,14611,112],"class_list":["post-338946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-sport","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338946","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=338946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}