{"id":224898,"date":"2026-01-03T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224898\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:38:09","slug":"dingles-dublin-messiah-prepares-to-take-on-his-native-club-ballyboden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224898\/","title":{"rendered":"Dingle\u2019s Dublin messiah prepares to take on his native club Ballyboden"},"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\">P\u00e1draig Corcoran led his adopted town to a first county title in almost 80 years and now faces Ballyboden St Enda\u2019s where he enjoyed a successful underage career\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dingle manager P\u00e1draig Corcoran before the AIB Munster club SFC final victory over St Finbarr's at FBD Semple Stadium in Thurles. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9931a0f0-9b34-4cfd-a6c4-b93e89dcf028.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)\">Dingle manager P\u00e1draig Corcoran before the AIB Munster club SFC final victory over St Finbarr&#8217;s at FBD Semple Stadium in Thurles. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">On a wall in Muiris Dan\u2019s, the pub on John Street in Dingle, hangs a framed Dublin jersey.<\/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)\">It used to be positioned just inside the door on the right, next to an identically displayed Kerry jersey belonging to Tommy Griffin, one of the proprietors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"P\u00e1draig Corcoran led his adopted town to a first county title in almost 80 years and now faces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,7277,2179,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-224898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-conor-mckeon","10":"tag-dublin-gaa","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224898","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=224898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}