{"id":452619,"date":"2026-05-16T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452619\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:43:08","slug":"cork-captain-darragh-fitzgibbon-to-miss-rest-of-munster-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452619\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork captain Darragh Fitzgibbon to miss rest of Munster championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cork hurling captain Darragh Fitzgibbon is set to miss the remainder of the county\u2019s Munster SHC campaign due to a case of appendicitis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fitzgibbon underwent surgery on Saturday afternoon and is likely to face at least a month on the sidelines. Cork conclude their provincial round-robin campaign on Sunday against Clare, with the possibility of the Munster final on Sunday, June 7 after that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Charleville man will be targeting a return for the All-Ireland series \u2013 if Cork finish third in Munster or reach the final and lose it, Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s side would be in quarter-final action on the weekend of June 20\/21, while the retention of their Munster crown would send them straight through to the All-Ireland semis on July 4\/5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">STEPPING UP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Vice-captain Mark Coleman will lead the team in Fitzgibbon&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The three-time All-Star joins Cork defenders Robert Downey and Ciar\u00e1n Joyce on the injured list. Downey is recovering from an ankle-ligament problem but could make the Munster final if the Rebels get there; unfortunately, Joyce is out for the remainder of the season due to a cruciate-ligament injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork hurling captain Darragh Fitzgibbon is set to miss the remainder of the county\u2019s Munster SHC campaign due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-452619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hurling","tag-cork-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452619","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=452619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}