{"id":392,"date":"2009-10-08T10:42:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T09:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=392"},"modified":"2009-10-23T10:13:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:13:58","slug":"waterford-gaa-county-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Waterford GAA County Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day of th<\/span>e big final<\/strong> is fast approaching. Lismor<\/strong><\/span>e<\/strong>, who hav<\/span>e had th<\/span>eir shar<\/span>e of succ<\/span>ess in this comp<\/span>etition ov<\/span>er th<\/span>e last f<\/span>ew d<\/span>ecad<\/span>es, ar<\/span>e up against anoth<\/span>e<\/span>r illustrious hurling club in the form of\u00a0 Ballygunn<\/strong><\/span>er<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ther<\/span>e will b<\/span>e no shortag<\/span>e of int<\/strong><\/span>er-county stars<\/strong> on display. Dan Shanahan<\/strong> and his young<\/span>er broth<\/span>er Mauric<\/span>e (who<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Maurice

Maurice Shanahan with the ball for Lismore<\/p><\/div>\n

is in flying form this weath<\/span>er, by all accounts) should b<\/span>e playing for Lismor<\/span>e, whil<\/span>e for thos<\/span>e who miss watching Paul O’Flynn<\/strong> driv<\/span>e the likes of Cork and Kilkenny mad by racking up th<\/span>e points for <\/span>Wat<\/span><\/strong>erford<\/strong>, it will b<\/span>e an opportunity to s<\/span>e<\/span>e how h<\/span>e far<\/span>es out with Ballygunn<\/span>er, who b<\/span>eat a much-fanci<\/span>ed Mount Sion t<\/span>eam on th<\/span>eir way to th<\/span>e final.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a marker of th<\/span>e 50th anniv<\/strong><\/span>ersary<\/strong> of th<\/span>e last <\/span>Waterford s<\/span>enior All-Ir<\/span><\/strong>eland win<\/strong>, th<\/span>er<\/span>e is to b<\/span>e a sp<\/span>ecial r<\/span>ec<\/span>eption for survivors or r<\/span>epr<\/span>es<\/span>entativ<\/span>es. Th<\/span>e 1959 final<\/strong> took pla<\/span>c<\/span>e <\/span>exactly 50 y<\/span>ears and 1 w<\/span>e<\/span>ek ago from th<\/span>e dat<\/span>e of this final. L<\/span>et’s hop<\/span>e that th<\/span>e curr<\/span>ent t<\/span>eam mak<\/span>e anoth<\/span>er small st<\/span>ep and claim th<\/span>e cup in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a>\u201cMy Father: A Hurling Revolutionary, the life and times of Ned Power<\/strong>\u201d is out on paperback at the end of November 2009.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> for further information, pre-order<\/strong><\/a> and excerpt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day of the big final is fast approaching. Lismore, who have had their share of success in this competition over the last few decades, are up against another illustrious hurling club in the form of\u00a0 Ballygunner. There will be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kxa7-6k","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}