{"id":471973,"date":"2026-05-28T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471973\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:50:10","slug":"former-kilkenny-hurler-jim-treacy-dies-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471973\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kilkenny hurler Jim Treacy dies aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kilkenny hurler Jim Treacy has died at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p>Treacy, from Bennettsbridge, captained the Cats to their 1967 All-Ireland triumph over Tipperary. It was a significant victory with the team having lost two of the previous three finals. It also marked a first over neighbours Tipp in the final since 1922.<\/p>\n<p>He was a well regarded defender and picked up a first All-Star Award in 1971, the first year they were presented, and another one the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Treacy also won All-Irelands with Kilkenny in 1969 and 1972 and 1974, while he was part of the extended panel for the victories in 1963 and 1975 before retiring.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/2022\/0903\/1314928-kilkenny-beat-tipperary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kilkenny All Ireland Champions 1967<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kilkenny hurler Jim Treacy has died at the age of 82. Treacy, from Bennettsbridge, captained the Cats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-471973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471973","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=471973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}