{"id":77383,"date":"2025-09-21T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/77383\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:54:08","slug":"ballybrown-edge-out-adare-in-physical-limerick-senior-hurling-championship-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/77383\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballybrown edge out Adare in physical Limerick senior hurling championship quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BALLYBROWN have beaten Adare in the Whitebox Limerick senior hurling championship<\/a> quarter-final on a scoreline of 0-20 to 2-10 in Askeaton on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Semi-final bound Effin edge past Granagh-Ballingarry in Limerick premier intermediate hurling championship<\/a><\/p>\n

Ballybrown’s reward for their win is a semi-final meeting with reigning champions Doon, with that game due to be played\u00a0on the weekend of October 4-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kevin Lally’s Ballybrown side was aided by a strong breeze in the first half and they made that advantage count as they raced into 0-4 0-1 lead after five minutes.<\/p>\n

Points from Ross Griffin, Ross Kenny, James Coughlan and Colin Coughlan gave Ballybrown some early breathing room.<\/p>\n

Adare’s Willie Griffin, who was superb from placed balls all afternoon, kept his side in the game. Griffin would be Adare’s only scorer in the opening half.<\/p>\n

Griffin and Kenny continued to tag on the scores for Ballybrown but as the half wore on, both sides became frustrated with their efficiency in front of goal. <\/p>\n

Both Ballybrown and Adare were guilty of some poor wides and shot selection at times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aidan O’Connor, who was as equally as effective from placed balls as his Adare counterpart, split the post three times as the half drew to a close to put his side 0-10 to 0-4 ahead. <\/p>\n

Adare would be afforded a lifeline on the stroke of half-time when the lively Willie Griffin blasted home to cut Ballybrown’s lead to two, 0-9 to 1-4.<\/p>\n

Aidan O’Connor and Griffin continued their fine free-taking as the two traded points in the opening minutes of the second-half.<\/p>\n

Quickfire efforts from Griffin and wing-back John Fitzgibbon cut Ballybrown’s lead to just one point on 38 minutes before frees from Aidan O’Connor (2) and Colin Coughlan (1) gave Lally’s side the lead once again.<\/p>\n

The game burst into life on 46 minutes when Adare wing-back John Fitzgibbon latched onto a loose ball and blasted home from the ’21 to put the cat amongst the pigeons and give his side the lead, the west Limerick side now 2-8 to 0-13 ahead.<\/p>\n

To Ballybrown’s credit, they responded expertly to the concession of that second goal, rallying off the next three points of the match via Bryan Griffin, Colin Coughlan and Ross Griffin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ballybrown now led 0-16 to 2-8 as the match entered the final ten minutes.<\/p>\n

It was to be a nervy ending for Ballybrown who had to be defensively resolute as Mark Foley’s charges threw the kitchen sink at their opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both sides would trade a couple of points each as the game game to a close but it was Ballybrown who held firm to eke out a four-point win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ballybrown will face reigning champions Doon in the Limerick SHC semi final in two weeks time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

SCORERS: ADARE: <\/strong>Willie Griffin 1-8 (6 f), John Fitzgibbon 1-02\u00a0 BALLYBROWN:<\/strong>\u00a0Aidan O’Connor 0-8 (7f), Colin Coughlan 0-4 (3f), Ross Griffin 0-3, Ross Kenny 0-2, Bryan Griffin and Luke O’Connor 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

ADARE:<\/strong>\u00a0Shane O\u2019Donoghue, David Connolly, Joe Sweeney, Mike Keane, John MacSweeney, Ronan Connolly, Wayne McNamara, Jody Hannon, Conor Ryan, John Fitzgibbon, David O’Mahony, Sam Hickey, Patrick Kearney, Brendan O’Connor, Willie Griffin.\u00a0SUBS: <\/strong>Darragh Gleeson for Jody Hannon (48 min) and Sean Connolly for Patrick Kearney (55 min).<\/p>\n

BALLYBROWN:\u00a0<\/strong>Cian Hedderman; Ned Quinn, David Hartnett, Keith Punch; Mikey Gavin, Colin Coughlan, James Coughlan; Killian Gavin, Leigh Doolan; Ross Kenny, Aidan O\u2019Connor, Ross Griffin; Barry Adams, Bryan Griffin, Mikey Kiely. SUBS: <\/strong>Luke O’Connor for Barry Adams (44 min) and Bobby Smyth for Mikey Kiely (56 min).<\/p>\n

REFEREE: <\/strong>Kieran Griffin (Feohanagh-Castlemahon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALLYBROWN have beaten Adare in the Whitebox Limerick senior hurling championship quarter-final on a scoreline of 0-20 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15804,9,10,18,13,14,6,129,19,17,11,12,13889,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-77383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-adare-gaa-club","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-hurling","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-limerick-gaa","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77383","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=77383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}