{"id":19784,"date":"2025-09-14T00:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/19784\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:29:36","slug":"declan-lynch-the-grilling-of-jim-gavin-was-an-amazing-piece-of-radio-for-a-couple-of-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/19784\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: \u2018The grilling of Jim Gavin was an amazing piece of radio for a couple of reasons\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\">\nRadio reviews\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e68fe613-b1dd-4a21-a5df-95a93a16f37c.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)\">Former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin. Photo: 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)\">One evening about 10 years ago, I was listening to Newstalk\u2019s Off the Ball (Newstalk, daily, 7pm) where Colm Parkinson was grilling Dublin manager Jim Gavin about what sounded to the layman like a terrifying scene at a \u00ad\u201cfriendly\u201d match between Dublin and Armagh, played behind closed doors.<\/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)\">Even Parkinson, no layman himself, but a former Laois county star, seemed concerned as he described injuries received by Dublin\u2019s Davey Byrne which had put the player in hospital \u2013 a closed eye, a broken nose and 10 stitches on his forehead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews Former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin. Photo: Sportsfile One evening about 10 years ago, I was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17562,93,61,60,2043,6133,6085,6129],"class_list":{"0":"post-19784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-declan-lynch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jim-gavin","13":"tag-newstalk","14":"tag-rte","15":"tag-rte-radio-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784","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=19784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}