{"id":415336,"date":"2026-04-24T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415336\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:34:08","slug":"all-ireland-winner-blasts-call-to-split-kilkenny-minor-and-senior-games-by-five-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415336\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland winner blasts call to split Kilkenny minor and senior games by five hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time All-Ireland winner with Kilkenny, Richie Power snr has heavily criticised the decision not to play Kilkenny&#8217;s two Leinster Championship matches at minor and senior levels this weekend as a double header in UPMC Nowlan Park.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, the minors will play Galway at 1pm at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/116\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kilkenny GAA HQ<\/a>, followed by the seniors match against Wexford over five hours later at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no way that should be allowed to happen in my eyes. It&#8217;s totally, totally wrong on parents and Kilkenny supporters,&#8221; Power told Community Radio Kilkenny City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/gaa\/1809932\/it-doesn-t-add-up-kilkenny-manager-on-the-removal-of-minor-and-senior-double-headers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">READ NEXT:\u00a0&#8216;It doesn&#8217;t add up&#8217; &#8211; Kilkenny manager on the removal of minor and senior double headers\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s crazy fixturing,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Are they trying to stop genuine people who give their lives to clubs and bring kids to matches all over the country?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no way it should be allowed. Whatever committee that brought in this thing that they don&#8217;t want young lads playing before senior matches, it&#8217;s crazy stuff,&#8221; he added, re-affirming his strong view that&#8217;s it &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/191\/gaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOR MORE KILKENNY GAA NEWS, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kilkenny GAA Golf Classic Below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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":"Two-time All-Ireland winner with Kilkenny, Richie Power snr has heavily criticised the decision not to play Kilkenny&#8217;s two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4183,61,60,12969,14611,58031,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-415336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kilkenny","12":"tag-kilkenny-gaa","13":"tag-kilkenny-hurling","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415336","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=415336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}