{"id":247066,"date":"2026-01-16T01:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:45:16","slug":"smith-handed-first-start-of-2026-gaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247066\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith handed first start of 2026 &#8211; GAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Roscommon manager Mark Dowd has rung the changes for his side\u2019s FBD Shield Final against Sligo tomorrow (Friday) evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Enda Smith is set to make his first appearance of 2026 after being named at centre forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, Ronan Daly has been handed the captain\u2019s armband after being named at centre back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There are just three survivors from the team that lost to Mayo last time out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Aaron Brady is named in goal while Declan Kenny and Dylan Ruane have also retained their starting spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Niall Higgins is set to make his first start of the year after making his bow for 2026 after coming off the bench against Mayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Richard Hughes is also set for his first start of 2026 after being sprung from the bench against both Leitrim and Mayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Roscommon will face Sligo tomorrow (Friday) at the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence with the contest throwing in at 7.30 p.m..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3828992_2_articleinline_Ros_20team_20v_20Sligo.jpg\" alt=\"The Roscommon team to face Sligo in the FBD Shield Final. Picture: Roscommon GAA.\" title=\"The Roscommon team to face Sligo in the FBD Shield Final. Picture: Roscommon GAA.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>The Roscommon team to face Sligo in the FBD Shield Final. Picture: Roscommon GAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roscommon manager Mark Dowd has rung the changes for his side\u2019s FBD Shield Final against Sligo tomorrow (Friday)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-247066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247066","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=247066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}