{"id":362414,"date":"2026-03-24T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362414\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:07","slug":"two-time-all-star-rushe-set-for-dublin-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362414\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Star Rushe set for Dublin return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Rushe could be set for a return to inter-county hurling, with reports the two-time All-Star is back training with Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old last played for his county in the 2022 Leinster Hurling Championship, where an appearance off the bench against Westmeath was quickly followed by an injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Na Fianna man, who sat out the following season, never officially retired but declined opportunities to go back into the Dublin fold.<\/p>\n<p>Current manager Niall \u00d3 Ceallach\u00e1in, who worked with him at Na Fianna last year during the All-Ireland club-winning season, seems to have succeeded in enticing the player back, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/gaelic-games\/hurling\/liam-rushe-makes-return-to-dublin-hurling-panel-after-four-year-absence\/a638536909.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Irish Independent reporting<\/a> he has been back training for a number of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Rushe made his Dublin debut under Anthony Daly as a teenager in 2009 and went on to win a league (2011) and Leinster title (2013) in a memorable period for the Metropolitans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"NfLjvDSFerw\">\n<p>Listen to the RT\u00c9 GAA Podcast on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/podcasts\/22381502-lesser-lights-enjoy-football-triumphs-clare-rewa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RT\u00c9 Radio Player<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ie\/podcast\/lesser-lights-enjoy-football-triumphs-clare-rewarded\/id885768269?i=1000651779075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0xuSIIZRwvW2UHFbDCUvyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/podcasts\/series\/20933-rte-gaa-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wherever you get your podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Rushe could be set for a return to inter-county hurling, with reports the two-time All-Star is back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-362414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362414","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=362414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}