{"id":71441,"date":"2025-09-18T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71441\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:22:12","slug":"can-they-come-back-yes-but-its-their-biggest-test-to-date-ciaran-carey-on-whether-limerick-can-scale-hurling-summit-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71441\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Can they come back? Yes, but it\u2019s their biggest test to date\u2019 \u2013 Ciar\u00e1n Carey on whether Limerick can scale hurling summit 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\">Legendary hurler has spotted cracks in the system that must be addressed\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Limerick hurling legend Ciar\u00e1n Carey believes the Treaty men can bounce back from this year's disappointment. Photo: Tom Beary\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b183d568-5821-4955-ab66-abd0066a952b.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)\">Limerick hurling legend Ciar\u00e1n Carey believes the Treaty men can bounce back from this year&#8217;s disappointment. Photo: Tom Beary\/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)\">Ciar\u00e1n Carey made a bold prediction in the summer of 2018 that Limerick would dominate the hurling landscape in a similar way that the all-conquering Dublin footballers did, but what does he think seven years later?<\/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)\">John Kiely\u2019s men collected five All-Ireland SHC titles between that breakthrough success in \u201918 and 2023, including a famous four-in-a-row, but the well has run a little dry in the last two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary hurler has spotted cracks in the system that must be addressed Limerick hurling legend Ciar\u00e1n Carey believes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,13889,886,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-71441","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-limerick-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\/71441","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=71441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}