{"id":444126,"date":"2026-05-12T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444126\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:34:10","slug":"leinster-senior-hurling-championship-permutations-could-vulnerable-kilkenny-be-looking-at-a-shock-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444126\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster Senior Hurling Championship permutations: could vulnerable Kilkenny be looking at a shock early exit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kilkenny's Killian Doyle during the drawn game with Offaly at Glenisk O'Connor Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Killian Doyle.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)\">Kilkenny&#8217;s Killian Doyle during the drawn game with Offaly at Glenisk O&#8217;Connor Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">Kilkenny out of hurling championship by end of May \u2013 that\u2019s not a statement anyone could have contemplated just a few short weeks ago.<\/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)\">But Offaly&#8217;s draw with the reigning Leinster champions in Tullamore on Sunday has given them a potential path to one of the top three spots, at the possible exclusion of Kilkenny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilkenny&#8217;s Killian Doyle during the drawn game with Offaly at Glenisk O&#8217;Connor Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile Kilkenny out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20965,2179,61,60,14611,112],"class_list":["post-444126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-colm-keys","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444126","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=444126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}