{"id":441506,"date":"2026-04-18T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/441506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:01:15","slug":"kilkenny-are-longing-for-the-day-they-can-be-all-ireland-contenders-again-as-the-11-year-famine-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/441506\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny are longing for the day they can be All-Ireland contenders again as the 11-year famine goes on"},"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\">Stuttering conveyor belt and lack of underage stars sees Cats going through an unimaginable drought\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paddy Deegan slumps to the ground after Kilkenny\u2019s All-Ireland SHC semi-final defeat to Tipperary last year. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fde1e649-2878-498e-84a9-5e91b96ecdcc.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)\">Paddy Deegan slumps to the ground after Kilkenny\u2019s All-Ireland SHC semi-final defeat to Tipperary last year. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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)\">Eleven long years have passed since Kilkenny won the last of their 36 All-Ireland SHC titles. That\u2019s normal to most counties, but it\u2019s alien to the Cats.<\/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)\">\u201cPeople are wondering when will the good times come back?\u201d former Kilkenny hurler\/manager Nickey Brennan asks. \u201cOn one hand it\u2019s been disappointing and on the other, we\u2019ve been very close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuttering conveyor belt and lack of underage stars sees Cats going through an unimaginable drought Paddy Deegan slumps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[121688,18,19,17,885,886,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-441506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-all-ireland-senior-hurling-championship","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kilkenny-gaa","13":"tag-michael-verney","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116425371983646594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441506","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=441506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}