{"id":114865,"date":"2025-10-11T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114865\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:12:08","slug":"conor-lehane-ruled-out-of-county-final-with-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114865\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Lehane ruled out of county final with Achilles injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Midleton hurler Conor Lehane has been ruled out of next week\u2019s Co-Op Superstores Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship final against Sarsfields after sustaining a partial Achilles tear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The injury is expected to keep the Cork senior forward sidelined for a number of months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It comes as another setback for Midleton, following confirmation that full-back Eoin Moloney will also miss the final due to an Achilles rupture that will require surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lehane scored 0-12, including the winning free in extra-time in their semi-final victory over Blackrock, bringing his championship total to 0-48 (0-30 f, 0-3 65).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 33-year-old\u2019s absence will be felt. The Cork senior top scored from play during both of the Magpies\u2019 previous two county final triumphs, scoring 0-13 (0-8 f) in their win over Glen Rovers in 2021, and a remarkable 2-10 (0-2 f, 0-1 65) of Midleton\u2019s 2-15 when they pipped Sars to the county in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lehane etched his name into club history with that performance to dethrone the reigning champions, earning Midleton a first senior county title since 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now, as Midleton chase another title, they must do so without two pillars of their spine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sarsfields may not be the reigning county champions, but as current Munster club title holders and this season\u2019s standard-setters, the challenge before Midleton has rarely looked steeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midleton hurler Conor Lehane has been ruled out of next week\u2019s Co-Op Superstores Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1263,24,18,129,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-114865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-sport","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-hurling","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}