{"id":18372,"date":"2025-09-13T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/18372\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:13:08","slug":"philly-mcmahon-ger-brennan-is-the-kind-of-character-id-like-to-have-played-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/18372\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly McMahon: Ger Brennan is the kind of character I\u2019d like to have played under"},"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\">Change is needed but Dublin are in good hands \u2013 my former teammate is assembling a strong backroom team<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Dublin senior football manager Ger Brennan at his first media briefing at Dublin GAA sponsor Staycity Aparthotels in Dublin city centre. Photo: Dan Sheridan\/Inpho\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/444d8cab-3a3f-4cbe-a942-47d0ef213e4e.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)\">New Dublin senior football manager Ger Brennan at his first media briefing at Dublin GAA sponsor Staycity Aparthotels in Dublin city centre. Photo: Dan Sheridan\/Inpho<\/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 world seems to spin that bit more quickly the closer you get to 40. It wasn\u2019t all that long ago myself and Ger Brennan were togging out together and Jim Gavin was our manager. Somewhere in my subconscious, that dynamic still exists.<\/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)\">Now, one of them is Dublin manager and the other is running for President. They don\u2019t hang around, do they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Change is needed but Dublin are in good hands \u2013 my former teammate is assembling a strong backroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2179,61,60,2043,16596,112,2178],"class_list":{"0":"post-18372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dublin-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jim-gavin","12":"tag-philly-mcmahon","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stephen-cluxton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372","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=18372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}