{"id":121473,"date":"2025-11-04T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/121473\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:36:10","slug":"rob-hennelly-cillian-oconnor-and-james-carr-return-to-mayo-senior-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/121473\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Hennelly, Cillian O\u2019Connor and James Carr return to Mayo senior panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hennelly, Cillian O\u2019Connor and James Carr have all returned to the Mayo senior football panel.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Hennelly, who retired from inter-county football last December at the age of 34, currently plays his club football with Raheny in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Manager Andy Moran has persuaded him back into the fold as he has O\u2019Connor, who is also Dublin-based and took the decision to sit out this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 33-year-old, the championship\u2019s all-time record scorer, did not retire but was keen to take a break having made his senior debut for Mayo at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ardagh man Carr, 28, also opted out of the panel this year after some knee issues but is part of Moran\u2019s plans for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Moran has also recruited Donegal\u2019s 2012 All-Ireland winning goalkeeper Paul Durcan as his goalkeeping coach. The Four Masters man lives in the county and joins a management team already featuring head coach Paddy Tally and coach\/selector Colm Boyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mayo\u2019s 2026 National Football League Division 1 campaign commences with a trip to Galway on the weekend of January 24\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Hennelly, Cillian O\u2019Connor and James Carr have all returned to the Mayo senior football panel. Goalkeeper Hennelly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4185,112],"class_list":["post-121473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121473","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=121473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}