{"id":231694,"date":"2025-10-22T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231694\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:56:11","slug":"former-tyrone-ace-gambling-addiction-led-me-to-athy-my-second-home-now-i-want-to-play-until-im-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231694\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tyrone ace: Gambling addiction led me to Athy, my second home\u2026 now I want to play until I\u2019m 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Athy's Cathal McCarron in possession during their Kildare SFC final win over Naas. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 Midheach\/Sportsfile.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cb2214c2-3b1b-45eb-9401-6c63f141ec7f.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)\">Athy&#8217;s Cathal McCarron in possession during their Kildare SFC final win over Naas. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 Midheach\/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)\">Cathal McCarron described Athy as his \u201chome from home\u201d after the former Tyrone star helped the Reds to county final glory against five-in-a-row-seekers Naas.<\/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)\">The defender, a member of Tyrone\u2019s All-Ireland-winning panel in 2008, first trained with Athy after attending the town\u2019s Cuan Mhuire rehabilitation clinic in 2014 due to his gambling addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athy&#8217;s Cathal McCarron in possession during their Kildare SFC final win over Naas. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 Midheach\/Sportsfile. Cathal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,110063,393,394,110064],"class_list":{"0":"post-231694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-kildare-gaa","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-tyrone-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}