{"id":236461,"date":"2026-01-09T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:37:06","slug":"results-of-mckenna-cup-clashes-changed-due-to-rule-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236461\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of McKenna Cup clashes changed due to rule breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For its second staging in a row, Ulster GAA\u2019s competitions control committee has changed the results of Dr McKenna Cup games because of ineligible players.<\/p>\n<p>Two years after Donegal\u2019s win over Armagh was voided because under-age player Finbarr Roarty lined out, Fermanagh\u2019s win over Cavan on Wednesday has been cancelled, while Down have received the points despite losing to Armagh that same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The decision comes after there were reported breaches of the third-level policy and regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A statement from the provincial council on Friday afternoon read: \u201cFollowing a meeting of Ulster CCC, reported breaches of Pre-Season 3rd Level Policy &amp; Regulations were reviewed, and the following decisions taken in relation to the fielding of ineligible players:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe Fermanagh v Cavan game is null and void and no team is awarded the points. The Armagh v Down game is awarded to Down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For its second staging in a row, Ulster GAA\u2019s competitions control committee has changed the results of Dr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,850,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-236461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-hurling","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236461","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=236461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}