{"id":490650,"date":"2026-06-09T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490650\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:15:13","slug":"tommy-oconnell-ruled-out-of-corks-all-ireland-shc-quarter-final-with-offaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490650\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy O\u2019Connell ruled out of Cork&#8217;s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final with Offaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cork will be without midfielder Tommy O\u2019Connell for the county\u2019s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final with Offaly, with Tim O\u2019Mahony also a doubt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tests have confirmed a fractured thumb, while O\u2019Mahony is dealing with a dead leg that could also keep him out of the game at FBD Semple Stadium on Sunday week, June 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cTommy has a broken thumb,\u201d said Cork manager Ben O\u2019Connor, \u201cso he\u2019s definitely out the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIf we got beyond that, we\u2019ll see then how it heals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt looks like Tim is out as well, he has a dead leg. It\u2019s not as serious, hopefully, but we\u2019re waiting to see what happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYou\u2019re going to pick up knocks and bangs. I\u2019m sure now that Tommy is going to try his hardest to get it healed as fast as possible but it has to knit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere\u2019s no rushing it \u2013 if you did that and got a bang on it again, your year is over.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In better news, O&#8217;Connor is optimistic that captain Darragh Fitzgibbon will be available for Offaly, having missed the win over Clare and Sunday\u2019s final <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41846256.html\"> due to appendicitis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe\u2019d hope that he\u2019d be back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe\u2019ll have to get on the field before the weekend, in contact, if he is to be in contention for Sunday week and he sees confident that he will be able to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe has been doing a bit of running but the contact will tell.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork will be without midfielder Tommy O\u2019Connell for the county\u2019s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final with Offaly, with Tim O\u2019Mahony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,2110,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-490650","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490650","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=490650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}