{"id":227643,"date":"2026-01-04T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227643\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:46:11","slug":"gaa-television-icon-and-all-ireland-winner-visits-ballyshannon-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227643\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA television icon and All-Ireland winner visits Ballyshannon pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ballyshannon pub welcomed one of the largest GAA personalities for a pint this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>All-Ireland winner and former RT\u00c9 pundit, Joe Brolly, popped into O\u2019Donnell\u2019s Bar in Ballyshannon for a quick drink.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big weekend for GAA in Ballyshannon, as Fr Tierney Park in Ballyshannon hosted the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship semi-final between Derry\u2019s Glenullin, and Strokestown of Roscommon.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/home\/1980789\/donegal-based-football-club-asks-for-assistance-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Donegal-based football club asks for assistance to celebrate 50th anniversary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A social media post by O\u2019Donnell\u2019s Bar read: \u201cHad the pleasure of meeting this GAA legend today. Joe Brolly, what an absolute gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe and his friends heard about how good the pints were in ODs and wanted to see what all the fuss was about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said when leaving that all the talk was well-deserved.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ballyshannon pub welcomed one of the largest GAA personalities for a pint this weekend. All-Ireland winner and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18054,7726,4183,61,60,26885,43,21727,6085],"class_list":["post-227643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ballyshannon","tag-derry","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-brolly","tag-news","tag-roscommon","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227643","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=227643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}