{"id":100911,"date":"2025-10-24T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/100911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:41:09","slug":"big-interview-jack-oconnor-theres-a-better-balance-now-and-it-is-more-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/100911\/","title":{"rendered":"Big interview \u2013 Jack O\u2019Connor: \u2018There\u2019s a better balance now and it is more sustainable\u2019"},"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\">Kerry\u2019s All-Ireland-winning manager had intended stepping away but insists he\u2019s in the right frame of mind to continue\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry football manager Jack O\u2019Connor with his GWA Gaelic Football Personality of the Year award in front of Skellig Michael at St Finian\u2019s Bay in Ballinskelligs, ahead of tonight\u2019s Gaelic Writers Association Awards, supported by Dalata Hotel Group. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3260124.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)\">Kerry football manager Jack O\u2019Connor with his GWA Gaelic Football Personality of the Year award in front of Skellig Michael at St Finian\u2019s Bay in Ballinskelligs, ahead of tonight\u2019s Gaelic Writers Association Awards, supported by Dalata Hotel Group. 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)\">If time ever allows him on Sundays, Jack O\u2019Connor will dig out his bike and take off on a familiar route through his particular neck of south Kerry woods.<\/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)\">St Finian\u2019s Bay, Ballinskelligs, Portmagee, 30 to 40 kilometres along the coast with the Atlantic swell in his ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry\u2019s All-Ireland-winning manager had intended stepping away but insists he\u2019s in the right frame of mind to continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,20965,14609,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-100911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-colm-keys","10":"tag-david-clifford","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}