{"id":472699,"date":"2026-05-29T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:09:17","slug":"james-owens-to-take-charge-of-cork-limerick-munster-shc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472699\/","title":{"rendered":"James Owens to take charge of Cork-Limerick Munster SHC final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Owens will take charge of Sunday week\u2019s Munster SHC final, which will be his second Cork-Limerick appointment in six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Wexford official was the man in the middle for Cork\u2019s two-point Round 2 victory over Limerick in SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh on April 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Owens has taken charge of three All-Ireland finals \u2013 2015, \u201918 and \u201919 \u2013 and this marks his first Munster senior decider since the Tipperary-Waterford fixture 11 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Owens, who sent off Limerick captain Cian Lynch for hitting out at Tim O\u2019Mahony in the game in April, also refereed Limerick\u2019s Round 4 victory over Waterford in TUS Gaelic Grounds earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Owens will take charge of Sunday week\u2019s Munster SHC final, which will be his second Cork-Limerick appointment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,2110,1964,61,60,17406,112],"class_list":["post-472699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-cork-sport","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472699","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=472699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}