{"id":127558,"date":"2025-10-17T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127558\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:46:09","slug":"the-dressing-room-will-never-be-the-same-without-him-hurling-gives-shinrone-some-hope-after-loss-of-beloved-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127558\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The dressing room will never be\u00a0the same without him\u2019 \u2013 Hurling gives Shinrone some hope after loss of beloved\u00a0teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nOffaly club honour continue to honour Joe Cleary\u2019s memory in final bid\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The late Joe Cleary in action for Shinrone during the 2023 Offaly Club SHC final with Kilcormac-Killoughey at Grant Heating St Brendan\u2019s Park in Birr. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2649447.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The late Joe Cleary in action for Shinrone during the 2023 Offaly Club SHC final with Kilcormac-Killoughey at Grant Heating St Brendan\u2019s Park in Birr. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Life will never be the same for the people of Shinrone after suffering the tragic loss of one of their most loved sons, but hurling, in some small way, has helped with the grieving process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The unexpected death of senior hurler Joe Cleary, affectionately known as \u2018Joe Liffey\u2019, having been a long-time employee in the nearby Liffey Mills, rocked the Offaly village to its core in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offaly club honour continue to honour Joe Cleary\u2019s memory in final bid The late Joe Cleary in action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,886,37221,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-127558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-michael-verney","12":"tag-offaly-gaa","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127558","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=127558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}