{"id":222146,"date":"2025-06-28T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222146\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:55:15","slug":"cormac-spain-inspires-waterford-to-first-minor-title-in-12-years-with-victory-over-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222146\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormac Spain inspires Waterford to first minor title in 12 years with victory over Clare"},"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\">All-Ireland MHC final: Waterford 1-18 Clare 0-10\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Waterford captain James Comerford and teammates celebrate with the Irish Press Cup after the Electric Ireland GAA All-Ireland MHC final. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8cd16bae-1cd7-4601-b812-30d873fef4ef.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)\">Waterford captain James Comerford and teammates celebrate with the Irish Press Cup after the Electric Ireland GAA All-Ireland MHC final. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">It may have taken a Waterford injury-time blitz to separate the sides in Dungarvan two months earlier but there was definitely no doubting the result this time around as James O\u2019Connor\u2019s side soared to a first All-Ireland Minor Hurling title in 12 years in FBD Semple Stadium, Thurles.<\/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)\">In front of an electric 16,411 attendance, the D\u00e9ise emphatically banished a barren two wins from 16 matches in the previous six seasons to record their sixth victory of the campaign in style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland MHC final: Waterford 1-18 Clare 0-10 Waterford captain James Comerford and teammates celebrate with the Irish Press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[87691,2000,299,104,87692],"class_list":{"0":"post-222146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-clare-gaa","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-waterford-gaa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114762752041591127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}