{"id":39461,"date":"2025-09-23T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/39461\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:45:08","slug":"colm-keys-being-recognised-as-best-hurler-never-to-win-an-all-ireland-is-an-unfortunate-compliment-for-patrick-horgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/39461\/","title":{"rendered":"Colm Keys: Being recognised as best hurler never to win an All-Ireland is an unfortunate compliment for Patrick Horgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Horgan steps away from inter-county hurling as the leading all-time scorer in league and championship. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1e01ed80-bb16-4796-8732-a8d5e3fc7a6f.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)\">Patrick Horgan steps away from inter-county hurling as the leading all-time scorer in league and championship. Photo: 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)\">Patrick Horgan leaves the senior inter-county stage without the cherished prize that he chased so vigorously for so long.<\/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)\">Being recognised as the best hurler never to win an All-Ireland medal is an unfortunate compliment. But it\u2019s a compliment nonetheless given the company he keeps on that front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Horgan steps away from inter-county hurling as the leading all-time scorer in league and championship. Photo: Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20965,1964,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-39461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-colm-keys","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461","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=39461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}