{"id":466150,"date":"2026-05-25T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466150\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:22:09","slug":"anthony-daly-cork-and-limerick-sharpen-their-teeth-for-savagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466150\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Daly: Cork and Limerick sharpen their teeth for savagery\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> Munster championship hurling has always been so dog-eat-dog that if you\u2019re not ready for the fight, the hungrier dog will just eat you alive, chew you up into small pieces, and spit you straight back out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There was always a risk of yesterday\u2019s two matches being bloodbaths when the terms and conditions had been set beforehand. The big dogs, Cork and Limerick, were effectively already in a Munster final, so they saw this as an opportunity to sharpen their teeth for the savagery coming in two weeks. And when Clare and Tipp weren\u2019t ready for that attack, they were like fresh pieces of raw meat.<\/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":"Munster championship hurling has always been so dog-eat-dog that if you\u2019re not ready for the fight, the hungrier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,1965,72371,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-466150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-hurling","tag-munster-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466150","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=466150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}