{"id":416727,"date":"2026-04-25T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:29:08","slug":"totally-wrong-kilkenny-all-ireland-winner-takes-aim-at-gaa-for-crazy-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416727\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Totally wrong&#8217; &#8211; Kilkenny All-Ireland winner takes aim at GAA for &#8216;crazy&#8217; decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time All-Ireland winner with Kilkenny, Richie Power snr has heavily criticised a GAA ruling 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 a GAA ruling not to play Kilkenny&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4183,61,60,12969,14611,58031,43],"class_list":["post-416727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-kilkenny-hurling","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416727","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=416727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}