{"id":358221,"date":"2026-03-21T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358221\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:52:10","slug":"wheres-the-jeopardy-hurling-league-finale-struggles-to-match-footballs-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358221\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s the jeopardy? Hurling league finale struggles to match football\u2019s chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> I\u2019m heading for Dr Cullen Park in Carlow in this evening to do radio co-commentary on the Carlow-Dublin game in Division 1B. With all due respect to both teams, it\u2019s not box office in comparison to the Limerick-Galway match in the Gaelic Grounds, but it\u2019s been that kind of a league where it was always wishful thinking that we\u2019d enter the final day packed with intrigue, excitement and mad-cap permutations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dare I say it, that\u2019s become a guarantee for the football. There is more at stake in the football league compared to hurling but the football community are treated to a crazy last-day roulette of snakes-and-ladders this weekend every year while it almost feels like the hurling crowd are only trying to manufacture some drama.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m heading for Dr Cullen Park in Carlow in this evening to do radio co-commentary on the Carlow-Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-358221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hurling","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358221","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=358221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}