{"id":24198,"date":"2025-09-16T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24198\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:23:09","slug":"theyre-so-accepting-of-me-as-im-not-a-gaeilgeoir-former-cork-star-aidan-walsh-on-learning-the-lingo-of-success-with-an-ghaeltacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24198\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re so accepting of me, as I\u2019m not a gaeilgeoir\u2019 \u2013 former Cork star Aidan Walsh on learning the lingo of success with An Ghaeltacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Cork footballer Aod\u00e1n Breathnach of An Ghaeltacht and Fossa's Darren Ryan contest a kick-out during Sunday's Kerry IFC final. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3237672.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)\">Former Cork footballer Aod\u00e1n Breathnach of An Ghaeltacht and Fossa&#8217;s Darren Ryan contest a kick-out during Sunday&#8217;s Kerry IFC final. 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)\">This is a trick question. You are handed a match programme from Sunday\u2019s Kerry intermediate football final. You are told to peruse An Ghaeltacht\u2019s line-up and name the one player who\u2019s an All-Ireland SFC medallist, a two-time All-Star and former Young Footballer of the Year.<\/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)\">Your first guess? Probably Brian \u00d3 Beaglaoich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cork footballer Aod\u00e1n Breathnach of An Ghaeltacht and Fossa&#8217;s Darren Ryan contest a kick-out during Sunday&#8217;s Kerry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,1964,7070,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-24198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-cork-gaa","tag-frank-roche","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198","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=24198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}