{"id":224497,"date":"2026-01-03T02:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:38:11","slug":"paul-madden-opens-tenure-in-style-as-clares-blend-of-youth-and-experience-is-too-strong-for-deise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224497\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Madden opens tenure in style as Clare\u2019s blend of youth and experience is too strong for D\u00e9ise"},"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\">McGrath Cup: Clare 3-10 Waterford 0-11\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Winning start: Clare football manager Paul Madden. Photo: E\u00f3in Noonan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/04754942-f5b7-470e-acfc-e65b21fbd22a.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)\">Winning start: Clare football manager Paul Madden. Photo: E\u00f3in Noonan\/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 new season and a new chapter for Clare football under Paul Madden commenced in triumphant fashion in the McGrath Cup after holding off hosts Waterford in Cappoquin Logistics Fraher Field in Dungarvan.<\/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)\">Madden, who steered his native \u00c9ire \u00d3g to three county senior crowns this decade, seamlessly blended youth and experience, with senior debutants Joe Rafferty and Caoilfhionn O\u2019Dea grabbing first-half goals to ensure a 2-4 to 0-8 interval advantage before dominating the second period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McGrath Cup: Clare 3-10 Waterford 0-11 Winning start: Clare football manager Paul Madden. Photo: E\u00f3in Noonan\/Sportsfile A new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30041,7026,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-224497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-clare-gaa","9":"tag-waterford-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224497","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=224497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}