{"id":603380,"date":"2026-08-24T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:54:09","slug":"two-time-all-ireland-shc-winner-lynam-dies-aged-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603380\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Ireland SHC winner Lynam dies aged 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Lynam, a two-time All-Ireland hurling winner with Cork, has died aged 100.<\/p>\n<p>Lynam was the oldest surviving Cork All-Ireland hurling medal winner.<\/p>\n<p>A highly decorated player with his clubs Glen Rovers and St Nick&#8217;s, he was a multiple senior county medal winner in hurling and football, and a Harty Cup winner with the North Monastery school.<\/p>\n<p>He lifted the Liam MacCarthy Cup with the Rebels in 1952 and &#8217;53, sharing great success alongside another Glen Rovers man Christy Ring.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Rovers posted on social media platform X: &#8220;We extend our sincere sympathy to the family of club legend Jimmy Lynam RIP who has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jimmy gave a lifetime of service to our clubs Glen Rovers and St Nicks on and off the field. He was an AlI-Ireland senior (championship) winner with Cork and a friend to us all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lynam, a two-time All-Ireland hurling winner with Cork, has died aged 100. Lynam was the oldest surviving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-603380","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\/603380","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=603380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}