{"id":340019,"date":"2026-03-11T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:18:10","slug":"put-away-the-all-stars-and-start-hurling-ex-kilkenny-captain-andy-comerford-questions-commitment-of-current-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340019\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Put away the All-Stars and start hurling\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Kilkenny captain Andy Comerford questions commitment of current players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kilkenny\u2019s Jordan Molloy runs into the path of referee Colm Lyons as Galway\u2019s Cathal Mannion keeps hot on his heals during Saturday\u2019s defeat. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3381521.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)\">Kilkenny\u2019s Jordan Molloy runs into the path of referee Colm Lyons as Galway\u2019s Cathal Mannion keeps hot on his heals during Saturday\u2019s defeat. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/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)\">Former Kilkenny All-Ireland-winning captain Andy Comerford has questioned the commitment shown by the county\u2019s senior hurlers in their heavy defeat to Galway in the Division 1A league clash in Salthill on Saturday.<\/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)\">Kilkenny lost to Galway by 18 points, 0-35 to 0-17, their biggest loss in a competitive fixture since the 1950s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilkenny\u2019s Jordan Molloy runs into the path of referee Colm Lyons as Galway\u2019s Cathal Mannion keeps hot on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30883,20965,61,60,14611,112],"class_list":["post-340019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-galway-gaa","tag-colm-keys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340019","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=340019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}