{"id":511766,"date":"2026-06-21T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511766\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:44:13","slug":"all-ireland-shc-semi-finals-set-after-cork-crush-offaly-in-thurles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/511766\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SHC semi-finals set after Cork crush Offaly in Thurles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                All-Ireland SHC semi-finals set after Cork crush Offaly in Thurles<br \/>\n                June 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cc23f8ba-046e-4f6b-ba8f-0f1f30660c26.jpg\"\/><br \/>Cork&#8217;s Brian Hayes netted a hat-trick against Offaly at Semple Stadium \u00a9INPHO\/Tom O&#8217;Hanlon<\/p>\n<p>Cork will play Galway in the semi-finals of the All-Ireland senior hurling championship after demolishing Offaly in this afternoon\u2019s quarter-final in Thurles.<\/p>\n<p>It finished 6-25 to 2-11 at a sold out Semple Stadium, where Alan Walsh (2) and Brian Hayes netted goals for the Rebels inside the opening 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Barrett\u2019s goal on 27 minutes would make it 4-9 to 0-3 and Hayes hammered in another in the run up to half-time, helping Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s men to take in an unassailable 5-14 to 0-6 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes completed his hat-trick two minutes in the restart and points from returning skipper Darragh Fitzgibbon (free), Sean O\u2019Donoghue, William Buckley and Robbie O\u2019Flynn helped raise the winners\u2019 tally to 6-20 with 15 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Oisin Kelly and Adam Screeney pulled goals back for Offaly ahead of Screeney (two frees) and Daniel Bourke rounding off their tally, as the Faithful men exited this year\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n<p>It means that Cork now face the Tribesmen at Croke Park on July 4th for a place in the All-Ireland final, with the other semi-final seeing Munster champions Limerick play neighbours\u00a0Clare the following day at headquarters\u00a0after the Banner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hoganstand.com\/Article\/Index\/340817\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">0-29 to 0-16<\/a> win over Dublin yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-lang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Most Read Stories<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SHC semi-finals set after Cork crush Offaly in Thurles June 21, 2026 Cork&#8217;s Brian Hayes netted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-511766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511766","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=511766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}