{"id":224698,"date":"2026-01-03T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224698\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:38:11","slug":"tyrone-fight-their-way-past-armagh-before-stellar-box-it-athletic-grounds-crowd-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224698\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrone fight their way past Armagh before stellar Box-It Athletic Grounds crowd \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/armagh-gaa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/armagh-gaa\/\">Armagh<\/a> have been defeated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/tyrone-gaa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/tyrone-gaa\/\">Tyrone<\/a> in the Dr McKenna Cup, with The Red Hand coming out 2-13 to 0-17 winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A late Ben Cullen point put Malachy O\u2019Rourke\u2019s charges ahead, and Mattie Donnelly sealed the deal for an experimental oufit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">What will concern Kieran McGeeney more than most is an injury to Darragh McMullan, as he appeared to have a shoulder or collar bone issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Orchard named a strong outfit featuring many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/all-ireland-football-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/all-ireland-football-championship\/\">All-Ireland winners<\/a> named as starters, including their only All-Star, Ois\u00edn Conaty, and led 1-5 to 0-10 at the break only to fall short late on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other side in section A of the pre-season competition, Down, await Armagh on Wednesday at Pairc Esler in Newry, no matter the result and will then face Tyrone next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armagh have been defeated by Tyrone in the Dr McKenna Cup, with The Red Hand coming out 2-13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4365,20803,61,60,112,60860,82613],"class_list":["post-224698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-armagh-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-tyrone-gaa","tag-ulster-gaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224698","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=224698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}