{"id":581,"date":"2025-08-15T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/581\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:35:09","slug":"youre-like-who-the-f-is-that-little-fer-and-off-you-go-again-jackie-tyrrell-on-why-he-plays-junior-hurling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/581\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re like, \u2018Who the f*** is that little f***er?\u2019 and off you go again\u2019 \u2013 Jackie Tyrrell on why he plays junior hurling"},"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\">\nIn the first of our vintage veteran series, the Kilkenny legend reveals how dropping down the grades has given him a new lease of life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jackie Tyrrell (right) with fellow James Stephens clubman Eoin Larkin (left) and their former Kilkenny teammate  JJ Delaney during their recent junior quarter-final clash with Fenians\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1c352ec6-f30d-4004-b05a-c6f3abc4ff7a.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)\">Jackie Tyrrell (right) with fellow James Stephens clubman Eoin Larkin (left) and their former Kilkenny teammate  JJ Delaney during their recent junior quarter-final clash with Fenians<\/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)\">Jackie Tyrrell thought he had hung up his hurl when he called time on club duty two years ago, with the completion of the Dublin Marathon his primary sporting focus for 2024, but detaching from the game you love and adore is not as simple as that.<\/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)\">Tyrrell \u201chad enough of it\u201d, having started many moons ago as an 18-year-old, but then the call came a few months back to give a dig out for the James Stephens Junior \u2018D\u2019 side and a 25th year playing adult hurling for \u2018The Village\u2019 commenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first of our vintage veteran series, the Kilkenny legend reveals how dropping down the grades has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,885,886,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-581","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-kilkenny-gaa","12":"tag-michael-verney","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}