{"id":581566,"date":"2026-08-03T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581566\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:15:16","slug":"na-piarsaigh-earn-the-bragging-rights-with-victory-over-st-vincents-in-the-seandun-junior-a-hurling-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581566\/","title":{"rendered":"Na Piarsaigh earn the bragging rights with victory over St Vincent’s in the Seand\u00fan Junior A Hurling Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Na Piarsaigh 3-21\n <\/p>\n

\n St Vincent\u2019s 3-17\n <\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s beaten finalists Na Piarsaigh, got their AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A Hurling Championship campaign off to a winning start, as they defeated St. Vincent\u2019s, before a good-sized attendance, in their opener at Ballinlough on Sunday.<\/p>\n

This was an open game, which produced six goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Na Piarsaigh scored their three goals in the opening half, while St. Vincent\u2019s staged a late second half rally, which yielded two goals.<\/p>\n

Na Piarsaigh had points from play by Shane Galgey and Alan Keating on the board within two minutes of the throw-in.<\/p>\n

St. Vincent\u2019s opened their account in the fourth minute, when Adrian Murphy set up Luke Callanan for the game\u2019s opening goal, which gave St. Vincent\u2019s the lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Callanan added two further points, while Keating responded with his second point for the Fair Hill side.<\/p>\n

\"MichaelMichael Sheehan, who was top scorer for Na Piarsaigh with 2-4<\/p>\n

Na Piarsaigh regained the initiative in the seventh minute as Michael Sheehan won possession from a Na Piarsaigh puck-out, to score his side\u2019s first goal. This left the Fair Hill side leading 1-3 to 1-2.<\/p>\n

Na Piarsaigh\u2019s Keith Buckley exchanged points with Callanan. This was followed by an equalising point for St. Vincent\u2019s by Keith Sorensen.<\/p>\n

The Fair Hill side regained the lead in the 12th minute when Jamie Morrissey set up Sheehan for his second goal.<\/p>\n

Adrian Murphy and Callanan exchanged points with Na Piarsaigh\u2019s Morrissey and Keating entering the second quarter.<\/p>\n

The Fair Hill side stretched the margin to six points, when Buckley embarked on a solo run, to set up Morrissey for Na Piarsaigh\u2019s third goal. This gave Na Piarsaigh a lead of 3-6 to 1-6.<\/p>\n

For the remainder of the opening half, St. Vincent\u2019s outscored the Fair Hill side by five points to four.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stephen O\u2019Leary, Sean Daly, Trevor Broderick and Blake Murphy each got points from play for St. Vincent\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sean Daly also converted the only free of the opening half Keating replied with two points for Na Piarsaigh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sean Paul Cooke and Cillian O\u2019Leary also got a point each.<\/p>\n

This left the scoreline reading 3-10 to 1-11 in favour of Na Piarsaigh at the interval.<\/p>\n

With the elements in their favour for the second half, Na Piarsaigh had St. Vincent\u2019s pinned back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Peter Lehane, Cooke and Sheehan each tagged on points for the Fair Hill side. Keating also converted a 65.<\/p>\n

St. Vincent\u2019s responded with a hat-trick of points from play by Sean Daly.<\/p>\n

Entering the final quarter, Sheehan tagged on a point for Na Piarsaigh.<\/p>\n

Following a Na Piarsaigh puck-out, their net-minder Cian O\u2019Brien was credited with a point.<\/p>\n

Cormac O\u2019Neill replied with a point for St. Vincent\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The Fair Hill side had St. Vincent\u2019s on the defensive as Sheehan slotted over two unanswered points. Morrissey also added a point from play and Keating pointed a 65.<\/p>\n

With the game over as a contest, St. Vincent\u2019s refused to give up without a struggle. They staged a late rally, which yielded two goals in as many minutes from Blake Murphy and Jamie O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n

\"JamieJamie Morrissey (No 9 Na Piarsaigh) breaking away from the throw-in at the start of the second half <\/p>\n

Both sides traded points from frees in stoppage time. Keating pointed for Na Piarsaigh, before Blake Murphy replied for St. Vincent\u2019s, with the last puck of the game.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Na Piarsaigh: M Sheehan 2-4; A Keating 0-8 (0-2 65, 0-1f); J Morrissey 1-2; SP Cooke 0-2; S Galgey, C O\u2019Leary, K Buckley, P Lehane, C O\u2019Brien 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n St. Vincent\u2019s: L Callanan 1-5; B Murphy 1-2 (0-1f); Sean Daly 0-5 (0-1f); J O\u2019Donovan 1-0; C O\u2019Neill, T Broderick, S O\u2019Leary, A Murphy, K Sorensen 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n Na Piarsaigh: C O\u2019Brien; E Cronin, K Power, J Scanalan; C Joyce, P Cunningham, G Joyce; SP Cooke, J Morrissey; A Keating, S Galgey, K Buckley; P Lehane, M Sheehan, C O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: S O\u2019Connell for C O\u2019Leary (44), Salim Daly for Cronin (53), J McGarth for Scanlan (59).<\/p>\n

\n St. Vincent\u2019s: R Fielding; S O\u2019Leary, J O\u2019Mahony, D Butler; T Broderick, A Sorensen, J Jones; A Harte, B Murphy; C O\u2019Neill, L Callanan, K Sorensen; A Murphy, Sean Daly, J O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: C Desmond for O\u2019Mahony (35), A O\u2019Donoghue for A Murphy (43).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: Cormac Dineen (Douglas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Na Piarsaigh 3-21 St Vincent\u2019s 3-17 Last year\u2019s beaten finalists Na Piarsaigh, got their AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-581566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581566","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=581566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}