{"id":193729,"date":"2025-12-15T23:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:35:06","slug":"sligos-murphy-joins-race-for-gaa-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193729\/","title":{"rendered":"Sligo&#8217;s Murphy joins race for GAA presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sligo&#8217;s John Murphy is the latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring to replace Jarlath Burns as President of the GAA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/football\/2025\/1209\/1548052-kent-joins-ryan-in-contesting-gaa-presidency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">With Leinster chairman Derek Kent and Tipperary\u2019s Ger Ryan already declared<\/a>, Murphy accepted a nomination from his home club Tubbercurry at the Sligo GAA convention on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, aiming to become the first Sligo person to hold the position, has a long background in GAA matters and served as Sligo chairperson 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the same Congress that saw Burns confirmed as President, Murphy was elected as a representative of congress and trustee of the association when he defeated Cavan\u2019s Tom Reilly by 147 votes to 118. He is also a former Connacht GAA President.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, he played for Sligo and helped them to only their second-ever Connacht title in 1975 following a replay win in Castlebar. He also served as a selector for the county after that.<\/p>\n<p>Burns was elected as the 41st President of the association and his three-year term will end in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>GAA Congress will vote next February for his successor.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the RT\u00c9 Sport Awards on Saturday from 8.05pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sligo&#8217;s John Murphy is the latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring to replace Jarlath Burns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-193729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193729","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=193729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}