{"id":990,"date":"2013-06-16T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-06-16T21:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:45:41","slug":"nenagh-eire-og-shock-county-champions-thurles-sarsfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/nenagh-eire-og-shock-county-champions-thurles-sarsfields\/","title":{"rendered":"Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g shock county champions Thurles Sarsfields"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The draw for the second round of the 2013 county senior hurling championship took place on Sunday evening and pits Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g against south Tipperary’s Mullinahone. Fixture details TBC.<\/p>\n

County Senior Hurling Championship
\nNenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g 0-15 Thurles Sarsfields 0-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c9ire \u00d3g recorded a stirring win over Thurles Sarsfields – the defending county and provincial champions – at a soaking wet The Ragg in the opening round of the county senior hurling championship this evening. Indeed, a hard-working \u00c9ire \u00d3g were superb value for this three-point win.<\/p>\n

The game began at a frantic pace with Thurles\u2019 Lar Corbett and \u00c9ire \u00d3g\u2019s Billy Heffernan shown straight red cards as early as the fourth minute. Thurles took the lead thanks to a Pa Bourke free, but \u00c9ire \u00d3g hit back with two Tommy Heffernan points to lead 0-2 to 0-1 after eleven minutes.<\/p>\n

Two Pa Bourke efforts (one free) and a Se\u00e1nie Geaney point saw the sides locked at 0-3 apiece by the 18th minute. Stephen Cahill then gave Thurles the lead, but \u00c9ire \u00d3g responded with a Kevin Tucker \u201965 before Killian Gleeson handed the Blues a 0-5 to 0-4 advantage in the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n

A Kevin Tucker \u201965 added to the \u00c9ire \u00d3g tally, but to their credit Thurles Sarsfields finished out the half strongly with points from Stephen Cahill and Pa Bourke retiring the sides at six points apiece.<\/p>\n

Having played with the wind in the opening half \u00c9ire \u00d3g were a little disappointed not to enjoy an interval lead. Three times \u00c9ire \u00d3g had created goal-scoring opportunities, but Thurles \u2018keeper Paddy McCormack denied Paddy Murphy (twice) and Se\u00e1nie Geaney with a series of superb saves.<\/p>\n

\u00c9ire \u00d3g began the second half in positive fashion with points from Kevin Tucker (one free, one point) and Paddy Murphy helping the Blues into a 0-9 to 0-6 lead by the 34th minute.<\/p>\n

Michael O\u2019Brien and Paddy Murphy then traded points before a Pa Bourke brace (one free) left one between them – 0-10 to 0-9.<\/p>\n

A Kevin Tucker free in the 43rd minute settled \u00c9ire \u00d3g, but Thurles responded with a Pa Bourke free to leave one between them with twelve minutes to play.<\/p>\n

\u00c9ire \u00d3g then upped their performance level considerably with points from Kevin Tucker (two frees) and Tommy Heffernan (two) forcing the Blues five points clear (0-15 to 0-10) in a stunning six-minute spell. Thurles did manage two late points, but the \u00c9ire \u00d3g defence was in no mood to concede a goal which could have rescued the game from a Sarsfields point of view.<\/p>\n

The draw for the second round of the county senior hurling championship took place on Sunday evening and pits \u00c9ire \u00d3g against Mullinahone. Fixture details to be confirmed. The full draw for the second round of the county senior hurling championship is: Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g v Mullinahone, Roscrea v Knockavilla Kickhams, Burgess or Carrick Davins v Cappawhite, Moycarkey-Borris v Portroe, Upperchurch-Drombane v Holycross-Ballycahill, Toomevara v Kilruane MacDonagh\u2019s, Templederry Kenyons v Ballingarry & Borris-Ileigh v JK Bracken\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g:<\/strong> Michael McNamara, Mark Flannery, Noel Maloney, John Brennan, Daire Quinn, Hugh Maloney, Billy Heffernan, Barry Heffernan, Kevin Tucker (0-7, 0-4 frees, 0-2 \u201965s), Se\u00e1nie Geaney (0-1), Michael Heffernan, Tommy Heffernan (0-4), Killian Gleeson (0-1), Paddy Murphy (0-2), Brian Quinn. Subs: (56th) Donnacha Quinn for Mark Flannery.<\/p>\n

Referee:<\/strong> Fergal Horgan (Knockavilla Kickhams).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The draw for the second round of the 2013 county senior hurling championship took place on Sunday evening and pits Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g against south Tipperary’s Mullinahone. Fixture details TBC. County Senior Hurling Championship Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g 0-15 Thurles Sarsfields 0-12 \u00c9ire \u00d3g recorded a stirring win over Thurles Sarsfields – the defending county and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}