{"id":194161,"date":"2025-12-16T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194161\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:36:09","slug":"patrick-mcbrearty-is-forced-to-call-time-on-donegal-owing-to-persistent-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194161\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McBrearty is forced to call time on Donegal owing to persistent injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donegal's Patrick McBrearty during this year's All-Ireland SFC final defeat to Kerry at Croke Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e9071bbe-c683-46ad-a944-6b5bf4a2e86d.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)\">Donegal&#8217;s Patrick McBrearty during this year&#8217;s All-Ireland SFC final defeat to Kerry at Croke Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">A persistent knee injury has forced the outgoing Donegal captain Patrick McBrearty to retire from inter-county football, bringing an end to 15 years in green and gold.<\/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 Kilcar man has been part of the Donegal squad since 2011, making his debut as a substitute in the Ulster SFC quarter-final against Antrim on the same day that he had featured for the county\u2019s minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal&#8217;s Patrick McBrearty during this year&#8217;s All-Ireland SFC final defeat to Kerry at Croke Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20965,6342,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-194161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-colm-keys","tag-donegal-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194161","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=194161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}