{"id":249185,"date":"2026-01-17T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249185\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:19:09","slug":"dingle-seem-destined-to-finish-fairytale-season-as-all-ireland-club-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249185\/","title":{"rendered":"Dingle seem destined to finish fairytale season as All-Ireland Club champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Great escapes in Munster final and against Ballyboden might suggest Dingle\u2019s name is already on the Andy Merrigan Cup, but they will earn every bit of it against Roscommon\u2019s St Brigids\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AIB ambassadors Michael Geaney, from Dingle, and Ruaidhr\u00ed Fallon, St Brigid\u2019s, ahead of the All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship final on Sunday in Croke Park. Photo: INPHO\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/450ceaa0-823f-4f65-a646-279559aedd51.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)\">AIB ambassadors Michael Geaney, from Dingle, and Ruaidhr\u00ed Fallon, St Brigid\u2019s, ahead of the All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship final on Sunday in Croke Park. Photo: INPHO<\/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)\">We were still shaking our head at the audacity, and improbability of it all, when somebody first suggested to us that it was as if their name was written on the cup.<\/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)\">If one is inclined to believe in such things, it really does feel like Dingle are fated to win this thing. History-makers and breakers already, Dingle just keep on pulling off one impossible feat after another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great escapes in Munster final and against Ballyboden might suggest Dingle\u2019s name is already on the Andy Merrigan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6937,116965,61,60,43,90225],"class_list":{"0":"post-249185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-damian-stack","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-roscommon-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249185","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=249185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}