{"id":674984,"date":"2026-11-04T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674984\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:24:10","slug":"damien-cahalane-set-to-miss-out-on-corks-2027-hurling-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674984\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Cahalane set to miss out on Cork\u2019s 2027 hurling panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damien Cahalane will not be part of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/cork-gaa_topic-5084534.html\">Cork<\/a> senior hurling panel in 2027, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The St Finbarr\u2019s man made his senior hurling debut for the Rebels in 2012 before a switch to football in 2013. Following a season as a dual inter-county player in 2014, he opted to focus on hurling only from 2015 and was a regular fixture in the side for much of the next decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s side are due to convene later this month for training for the coming season but the  Irish Sun is now reporting that Cahalane, 34 in August, will not feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During his time in red and white, Cahalane won four Munster SHC medals \u2013 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2025 \u2013 starting in each of those finals, while he was involved in three All-Ireland losses, in 2021, 2024 and 2025 as well as earning an Allianz Hurling League medal in the latter of those years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The departure of Cahalane \u2013 a winner of four <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/cork-gaa_topic-5084534.html\">Cork<\/a> SFC medals with Castlehaven as well as a senior hurling title with the Barrs \u2013 continues the transition of the county hurling squad that was seen with the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41922694.html\">retirement of S\u00e9amus Harnedy<\/a> and omission of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41922397.html\">Declan Dalton<\/a> last month, while Patrick Horgan retired at the end of 2025 and Conor Lehane was left off the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cork\u2019s first action of 2027 will be Co-op SuperStores <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41932719.html\">Munster Hurling League<\/a> games against Tipperary and Waterford, with the possibility of a game in the final of that competition before the national league campaign opens with a trip to Tipp on the weekend of January 23\/24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damien Cahalane will not be part of the Cork senior hurling panel in 2027, according to reports. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,5658,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-674984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674984","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=674984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}