{"id":455766,"date":"2026-05-19T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455766\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:54:12","slug":"extra-special-galway-refuse-to-wilt-as-they-hit-back-to-secure-leinster-minor-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455766\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra-special Galway refuse to wilt as they hit back to secure Leinster minor crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Leinster MHC final: Galway 3-20 Kilkenny 3-19 (aet)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Galway captain Gus Lohan lifts the cup after their Electric Ireland Leinster SHC final win over Kilkenny in Portlaoise. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/45ca77f0-a1e4-43b7-bfee-dcd1cc81de8f.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)\">Galway captain Gus Lohan lifts the cup after their Electric Ireland Leinster SHC final win over Kilkenny in Portlaoise. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">It smouldered for a while but last night\u2019s Electric Ireland Leinster MHC final eventually defied the damp and cold to catch fire, culminating in a sensational Galway win over Kilkenny, their first provincial title at this grade since they made a successful debut in the championship three years 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)\">Round-robin form suggested slight favouritism for the Tribesmen here but it was Kilkenny who looked like the class act for the first three-quarters of the game at Laois Hire O\u2019Moore Park in Portlaoise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster MHC final: Galway 3-20 Kilkenny 3-19 (aet) Galway captain Gus Lohan lifts the cup after their Electric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30883,61,60,14611,112],"class_list":["post-455766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-galway-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455766","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=455766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}