{"id":247859,"date":"2026-01-16T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:11:09","slug":"mark-oconnors-geelong-colleagues-flying-in-from-australia-for-dingles-all-ireland-club-football-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247859\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark O\u2019Connor\u2019s Geelong colleagues flying in from Australia for Dingle\u2019s All-Ireland club football final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark O'Connor and Patrick Dangerfield in action for the Geelong Cats. (Photo by Sarah Reed\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages_2097684583.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)\">Mark O&#8217;Connor and Patrick Dangerfield in action for the Geelong Cats. (Photo by Sarah Reed\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)<\/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)\">Mark O&#8217;Connor will have support from the other side of the world for Sunday&#8217;s AIB All-Ireland club football final against St Brigid&#8217;s in Croke Park with three of his Geelong Cats colleagues flying in for the game.<\/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)\">Among them is Patrick Dangerfield, one of the AFL&#8217;s most celebrated players who toured with Australia when they played an international rules series against Ireland in 2010 which Australia won over two tests in Limerick&#8217;s Gaelic Grounds and Croke Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark O&#8217;Connor and Patrick Dangerfield in action for the Geelong Cats. (Photo by Sarah Reed\/AFL Photos via Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20965,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-247859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-colm-keys","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247859","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=247859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}