{"id":236907,"date":"2026-01-10T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236907\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:02:10","slug":"the-cost-of-gaa-success-fans-club-together-as-croke-park-dreams-spark-e300000-gofundme-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236907\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of GAA success \u2013 fans club together as Croke Park dreams spark \u20ac300,000 GoFundMe phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Ghaeltacht's team celebrate after winning the Kerry county intermediate club final against Fossa. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3237671.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)\">An Ghaeltacht&#8217;s team celebrate after winning the Kerry county intermediate club final against Fossa. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">What started out as a chance conversation in P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh last weekend has evolved into a GoFundMe phenomenon.<\/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)\">Sometime after 2.0pm on Friday, An Ghaeltacht\u2019s online campaign to allay the costs of preparing for Sunday\u2019s Croke Park odyssey burst through the \u20ac80,000 barrier. \u201cI can\u2019t get over it,\u201d club chairperson Dara \u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide told the Irish Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ghaeltacht&#8217;s team celebrate after winning the Kerry county intermediate club final against Fossa. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,7070,61,60,4185,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-236907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-frank-roche","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mayo-gaa","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236907","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=236907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}