{"id":207985,"date":"2025-12-24T04:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207985\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T04:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:17:14","slug":"former-ireland-international-eunan-okane-takes-up-gaelic-football-post-with-derry-club-banagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207985\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ireland international Eunan O\u2019Kane takes up Gaelic football post with Derry club Banagher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eunan O'Kane of Bournemouth and Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City compete for the ball during a Premier League clash at Vitality Stadium on April 2, 2016. Photo: Mike Hewitt\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages_518697132.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)\">Eunan O&#8217;Kane of Bournemouth and Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City compete for the ball during a Premier League clash at Vitality Stadium on April 2, 2016. Photo: Mike Hewitt\/Getty Images<\/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)\">Former Republic of Ireland international Eunan O\u2019Kane has made a significant move into another code as he\u2019s been appointed as the new manager of the senior football side with Derry GAA club Banagher.<\/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 35-year-old, who had four seasons at Bournemouth, including one term in the Premier League, had stepped away from soccer when he retired, finishing up with Luton Town in 2018, and was involved in a number of businesses back in his native Derry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eunan O&#8217;Kane of Bournemouth and Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City compete for the ball during a Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,15135,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-207985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-bournemouth","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207985","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=207985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}