{"id":21047,"date":"2025-08-24T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21047\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:54:08","slug":"written-off-mount-leinster-rangers-save-best-for-last-to-stand-tallest-in-carlow-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21047\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Written off\u2019 Mount Leinster Rangers save best for last to stand tallest in Carlow again"},"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\">\nCarlow SHC final: Mount Leinster Rangers 1-19 St Mullins 0-16\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mount Leinster Rangers captain Kevin McDonald celebrates with his partner Vanessa Curran after beating St Mullins in the Carlow SHC final at Netwatch Cullen Park. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sports3221816.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)\">Mount Leinster Rangers captain Kevin McDonald celebrates with his partner Vanessa Curran after beating St Mullins in the Carlow SHC final at Netwatch Cullen Park. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">\u201cYou never write off the Rangers\u201d was much of the chatter going around Dr Cullen Park after a Chris Nolan-inspired Mount Leinster side reclaimed the Willie O\u2019Connor Cup to become kings of Carlow hurling for a 12th time.<\/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)\">\u201cDid you see what they wrote in the Carlow Nationalist? They gave us no chance\u201d was also overheard, and the display of Paul O\u2019Brien\u2019s side was another classic example of a team taking motivation from their detractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlow SHC final: Mount Leinster Rangers 1-19 St Mullins 0-16 Mount Leinster Rangers captain Kevin McDonald celebrates with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18062,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,886,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-21047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-carlow-gaa","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-michael-verney","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","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=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}