{"id":226762,"date":"2026-01-04T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226762\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:10:09","slug":"ballymac-boss-blake-happy-there-is-room-for-improvement-going-into-all-ireland-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226762\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymac boss Blake happy there is room for improvement going into All-Ireland final"},"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\">Ian Blake says Darragh Broderick\u2019s two-point score early in second half and the late contribution from Aidan Breen were critical to Ballymacelligott winning their All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ballymacelligott win this aerial duel against Grangenolvin in the All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final in Rathkeale. Photo: John Hannon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/572c51af-b6b7-4d8d-9f71-042a8fe0cb08.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)\">Ballymacelligott win this aerial duel against Grangenolvin in the All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final in Rathkeale. Photo: John Hannon<\/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 took quite the while for Ian Blake to make his way off the pitch at Mick Neville Park, such was the sea of Ballymacelligott supporters engulfing the players and management after their three-point win over Grangenolvin in a tense All-Ireland Club semi-final.<\/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)\">While Blake was taking the well wishes of the parish, club chairman John Rice was already on the phone, trying to firm up plans and the itinerary for next weekend\u2019s trip to Dublin and a first Croke Park appointment for the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Blake says Darragh Broderick\u2019s two-point score early in second half and the late contribution from Aidan Breen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,116507],"class_list":["post-226762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-paul-brennan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226762","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=226762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}