{"id":465935,"date":"2026-05-25T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465935\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:46:10","slug":"talking-points-corks-brian-hayes-the-wrecking-ball-made-for-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465935\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points: Cork&#8217;s Brian Hayes the wrecking ball made for destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Eventually, it had to come, the dam finally had to break with the sheer volume of goal chances that had battered both defensive walls in the opening 33 minutes. Eoin Downey played a sideline into the path of William Buckley, who slipped Rory Hayes before careering down the central channel to set up Brian Hayes, who drove the ball past Eibhear Quilligan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That had been the seventh goal chance in the Munster SHC clash  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41850609.html\">at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh<\/a> to that point. Shane Barrett had the first opportunity straight from the throw-in but the shot was blocked. From the puckout, Ian Galvin drew a brilliant save from Patrick Collins. Four minutes later, Galvin batted the ball off the butt of the post and the Cork defence prevented a posse of Clare forwards from scrambling the rebound over the line.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4976285_1_org_Irish_Examiner_modal.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tUnlimited access starts here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Try from only  \u20ac0.25 a day.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eventually, it had to come, the dam finally had to break with the sheer volume of goal chances&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,4365,1965,72371,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-465935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-gaelic-football","tag-hurling","tag-munster-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465935","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=465935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}