{"id":49638,"date":"2025-09-07T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49638\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:32:10","slug":"ruthless-ballygunner-demolish-mount-sion-to-ensure-12th-consecutive-waterford-hurling-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49638\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruthless Ballygunner demolish Mount Sion to ensure 12th consecutive Waterford hurling title"},"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\">Waterford SHC final: Ballygunner 2-35 Mount Sion 1-16\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ballygunner joint-captains Adam Hogan, left, and Mikey Mahony lift the cup with supporter Tom Mullane after their side's victory in the Waterford SHC final at Walsh Park. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3232259.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)\">Ballygunner joint-captains Adam Hogan, left, and Mikey Mahony lift the cup with supporter Tom Mullane after their side&#8217;s victory in the Waterford SHC final at Walsh Park. 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)\">A massacre, a masterclass, call it what you will. The Ballygunner thrashing machine laid waste to their city rivals, Mount Sion, in this scarily one-sided county final to make it an incredible 12th consecutive Waterford SHC title.<\/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)\">This was an awesome exhibition, with one caveat \u2013 Mount Sion were shockingly slack, in the first half especially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford SHC final: Ballygunner 2-35 Mount Sion 1-16 Ballygunner joint-captains Adam Hogan, left, and Mikey Mahony lift the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[26611,18,31185,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-49638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-waterford-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-frank-roche","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49638","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=49638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}