{"id":235894,"date":"2026-01-09T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:43:08","slug":"it-just-came-out-of-nowhere-and-was-complete-nonsense-eoin-downey-on-corks-all-ireland-whatsapp-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235894\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It just came out of nowhere and was complete nonsense\u2019 \u2013 Eoin Downey on Cork\u2019s All-Ireland WhatsApp rumour"},"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\">Rebels\u2019 2024 All-Star full-back has moved on from his All-Ireland final dismissal and the unfounded dressing-room speculation that followed\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eoin Downey attending the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup launch. Photo: Dan Sheridan\/Inpho\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/tionChampionships03.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)\">Eoin Downey attending the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup launch. 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)\">A new season dawns and Eoin Downey has his gaze fixed firmly in one direction only: looking forward.<\/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)\">And yet, for now at least, he finds it impossible to escape all those pesky questions stemming from last July\u2019s All-Ireland meltdown: his second-half red card; those (vehemently denied) rumours of a half-time row in the Cork dressing room; the \u2018how\u2019 and \u2018why\u2019 it all went so horribly wrong against Tipperary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebels\u2019 2024 All-Star full-back has moved on from his All-Ireland final dismissal and the unfounded dressing-room speculation that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,7070,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-235894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-frank-roche","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235894","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=235894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}