{"id":451214,"date":"2026-04-24T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/451214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:43:13","slug":"you-dont-want-to-be-getting-two-new-hips-at-30-carlow-boss-pat-bennett-on-his-son-stephen-and-what-the-waterford-star-puts-his-body-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/451214\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You don\u2019t want to be getting two new hips at 30\u2019 \u2013 Carlow boss Pat Bennett on his son Stephen and what the Waterford star puts his body through"},"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\">\u200b<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carlow hurling manager Pat Bennett poses for a portrait at the launch of the 25th annual Circet All-Ireland GAA Golf Challenge in Michael Lyng Motors, Kilkenny.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sports3433883.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)\">Carlow hurling manager Pat Bennett poses for a portrait at the launch of the 25th annual Circet All-Ireland GAA Golf Challenge in Michael Lyng Motors, Kilkenny.<\/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)\">On Sunday night last, Stephen Bennett got home to Curraglass outside Tallow and sat in a bath full of ice to calm burning hips that had flared up over more than 70 high-octane minutes in Ennis earlier in the day.<\/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 following day, meeting up with his father Pat Bennett for a coffee and a debrief, he struggled to sit into the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b Carlow hurling manager Pat Bennett poses for a portrait at the launch of the 25th annual Circet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[26611,18062,25558,18,19,17,132],"class_list":["post-451214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-waterford-gaa","tag-carlow-gaa","tag-colm-keys","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451214","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=451214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}