{"id":233744,"date":"2026-01-08T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233744\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:32:09","slug":"fergal-boland-would-love-to-bring-an-all-ireland-medal-back-to-mayo-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233744\/","title":{"rendered":"Fergal Boland would love to bring an All-Ireland medal back to Mayo training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AIB ambassador Fergal Boland ahead of the All-Ireland intermediate hurling final. Photo: Dan Sheridan\/Inpho\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4219930a-8bdf-47b4-8c91-977fc1579836.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)\">AIB ambassador Fergal Boland ahead of the All-Ireland intermediate hurling final. Photo: Dan Sheridan\/Inpho<\/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)\">Learning to \u201ctake a few risks\u201d and playing with a \u201cnothing to lose\u201d mindset helped Fergal Boland re-establish himself as a key player on the Mayo football panel after he was dropped in 2023.<\/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)\">Tooreen subsequently lost the 2022\/23 All-Ireland intermediate hurling final to Monaleen in what was a challenging time in his career, though he bounced back from those setbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AIB ambassador Fergal Boland ahead of the All-Ireland intermediate hurling final. Photo: Dan Sheridan\/Inpho Learning to \u201ctake a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4185,43],"class_list":["post-233744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233744","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=233744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}