{"id":662590,"date":"2026-10-23T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662590\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:08:17","slug":"ashling-thompson-to-captain-ireland-in-shinty-camogie-clash-at-pairc-ui-chaoimh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662590\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashling Thompson to captain Ireland in shinty-camogie clash at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SEVEN All-Ireland winning Cork camogie stars have been included in the Ireland squad for the shinty-camogie clash with Scotland this Saturday at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Courcey Rovers\u2019 Saoirse McCarthy, who captained the Ireland team in last year\u2019s clash with Scotland, is included, as are goalkeeper Amy Lee (Na Piarsaigh), Ava Fitzgerald (Sarsfields), Emma Murphy (Glen Rovers), Isobel Sheehan (\u00c9ire \u00d3g), Laura Hayes (St Catherines) and Ashling Thompson (Milford), who will captain the team.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a double-header at Cork GAA HQ, the Ireland camogie team will face their Scottish counterparts at 4pm, before the hurling side take on Scotland at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There is Cork interest too in the Ireland shinty-hurling team as recently-retired Rebel hurler S\u00e9amus Harnedy has been named in\u00a0 Eamon O\u2019Shea\u2019s squad. Harnedy, who made his Cork senior debut in 2011, won four Munster senior hurling titles, captaining the team to glory in 2018. He also played in the All-Ireland finals of 2013, 2021, 2024 and 2025. Harnedy won a national league medal in 2025 and won All-Star awards in 2013, 2018 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ireland Shinty-Camogie team: Amy Lee (Cork), Aimie Nolan (Carlow), Anais Curran (Wexford), Aoife McDonald (Tyrone), Ashling Thompson (Cork), Ava Fitzgerald (Cork), Dearbhla Magee (Antrim), Emma Murphy (Cork), Gr\u00e1inne McDonald (Tyrone), Isobel Sheehan (Cork), Laura Hayes (Cork), Maeve Clince (Meath), Naoise Hughes (Armagh), Rachael Walsh (Waterford), Rebecca Kelly (Carlow), Saoirse McCarthy (Cork), Shannagh Hegarty (Antrim), Sin\u00e9ad Wylde (Dublin), Sophie O\u2019Callaghan (Limerick).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ireland Shinty-Hurling team: Billy Nolan (Waterford), Mikey Butler (Kilkenny), Ian Shanahan (Laois), Sam O\u2019Farrell (Tipperary), Meehaul McGrath (Derry), Ryan Mullaney (Laois), Darragh Neary (Galway), Fiachra C-Fennell (Laois), Diarmuid Stritch (Clare), Aaron Dunphy (Laois), Andrew Ormonde (Tipperary), Cian O\u2019Sullivan (Dublin), Luca McCusker (Fermanagh), S\u00e9amus Harnedy (Cork), Pearse \u00d3g McCrickard (Down), Gerard Walsh (Antrim), Joe Murray (Leitrim), Patrick Turner (Derry), Kyle O\u2019Connor (Kerry), Damien Healey (Meath). Stand-by players: Se\u00e1n Kelly (Derry), Johnny Maher (Longford), Ciaran McNally (Longford), Ethan Flynn (Monaghan), Evan Tully (Longford), P\u00e1draig Doyle (Westmeath), Emmet Walsh (Monaghan), Kevin Goulding (Kerry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEVEN All-Ireland winning Cork camogie stars have been included in the Ireland squad for the shinty-camogie clash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-662590","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\/662590","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=662590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}