{"id":227801,"date":"2026-01-05T02:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:10:20","slug":"st-brigids-reveal-their-iron-will-to-hold-off-scotstown-and-book-place-in-all-ireland-final-against-dingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227801\/","title":{"rendered":"St Brigid\u2019s reveal their iron will to hold off Scotstown and book place in All-Ireland final against Dingle"},"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\">All-Ireland club SFC semi-final: St Brigid\u2019s 1-16 Scotstown 1-12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruaidhr\u00ed Fallon of St Brigid's is tackled by Scotstown's Nicky Sherlock in the All-Ireland SFC Club Championship semi-final at Kingspan Breffni. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8ecc37d5-b6cf-417b-905f-30aad96daae5.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)\">Ruaidhr\u00ed Fallon of St Brigid&#8217;s is tackled by Scotstown&#8217;s Nicky Sherlock in the All-Ireland SFC Club Championship semi-final at Kingspan Breffni. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">St Brigid\u2019s have been down this meandering road before, and maybe that held the key to victory over Scotstown on a day of bitter cold and red-hot goalmouth drama in Cavan.<\/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)\">The champions of Roscommon won by four in the end, and deservedly so given their scoreboard dominance (they led from the 27th minute to the final bell) and their streetwise tactics (they only conceded two scoreable frees and didn\u2019t give Rory Beggan even a solitary two-point sniff).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland club SFC semi-final: St Brigid\u2019s 1-16 Scotstown 1-12 Ruaidhr\u00ed Fallon of St Brigid&#8217;s is tackled by Scotstown&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7070,61,60,42187,43,90225],"class_list":{"0":"post-227801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-frank-roche","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-monaghan-gaa","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-roscommon-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227801","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=227801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}