{"id":374154,"date":"2026-03-31T04:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:56:11","slug":"former-limerick-hurler-guides-sligo-to-allianz-league-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374154\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Limerick hurler guides Sligo to Allianz League success"},"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-1774861382475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"317\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORMER <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/245\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> goalkeeper Tom Hennessy has led his adopted county of Sligo to Allianz Hurling League glory.<\/p>\n<p>The Yeats County won the Division 4 title over the weekend, defeating a Longford side including two Limerick men &#8211; Blackrock&#8217;s Marty Farrell and Cathal Mullane, formerly of Killeedy.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell scored 0-2 from center back while Mullane scored 1-1 but the Midlands side lost out 2-21 to 4-12 against Hennessy&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n<p>Former Kilmallock player Hennessy played four times for Limerick in the 1994 National League and was sub keeper as the county reached that year&#8217;s All-Ireland final.<\/p>\n<p>Hennessy is the father of another former Limerick goalkeeper, Barry, who was part of All-Ireland winning panels under John Kiely.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Ahane native Richie Ryan lined out at full-forward in the Division 3 final for Donegal as the Ulster County was defeated by Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/gaa\/2050116\/limerick-sparkle-in-victory-over-tipperary-in-munster-minor-football-championship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick sparkle in victory over Tipperary in Munster Minor Football Championship<\/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":"FORMER Limerick goalkeeper Tom Hennessy has led his adopted county of Sligo to Allianz Hurling League glory. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,17404,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-374154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-kilmallock-gaa-club","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374154","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=374154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}