win this<\/a>is absolutely unbelievable for our club. It is the first line of conversation wherever you go, and obviously this year, with two teams five miles apart [on All-Ireland runs], you couldn’t go anywhere around the peninsula without football being the first talking point and the games coming up.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen you see people travelling home from the States and coming back from Australia, these places, to be here today, it’s unreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this will inspire Dingle to go for it. We went to school with them, we played with them in the Pobalscoil, and they’re sending their text message, wishing you the very best of luck. We’ve paved the way for them to go for it now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The argument put to Glenullin manager Michael O\u2019Kane was that his team hadn\u2019t gone for it. They operated with an incredibly deep-lying defensive block. They applied staggeringly little pressure on the Gaeltacht ball-carrier outside the 40-metre arc.<\/p>\n
All first-half stats flying about the place had An Ghaeltacht on at least 75% in the possession stakes.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Kane staunchly defended his team\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cStats don’t win games. Possession doesn’t win you a lot of games in football. We’ve lived off scraps in other games and we’ve come through.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had more possession, but we had more shots, we had more goal chances. Our shooting didn’t function today; that’s why we lost the game. I know I might sound a wee bit pissed off about that but possession doesn’t win you games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m so annoyed with ourselves that we just didn’t do ourselves justice. That’s something we talked about all year, about doing ourselves justice and having no regrets, and unfortunately we have so many regrets stepping out of here today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u00d3 S\u00e9 All-Ireland medal haul was 24 coming up the road to Croke Park on Sunday. P\u00e1draig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-240867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240867","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=240867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}