{"id":257727,"date":"2026-01-22T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257727\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:52:11","slug":"meath-boss-robbie-brennan-i-call-it-that-davy-fitz-energy-you-have-to-have-it-and-if-you-can-save-a-bit-of-it-by-not-mouthing-at-referees-youre-all-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257727\/","title":{"rendered":"Meath boss Robbie Brennan:\u00a0\u2018I call it that Davy Fitz energy. You have to have it and if you can save a bit of it by not mouthing at referees you\u2019re all right\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meath manager Robbie Brennan. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach \/ Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ac59c41c-c4dd-4a12-b6de-b41ff2ab7cdb.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)\">Meath manager Robbie Brennan. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach \/ 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)\">Expectation comes with the territory when a team makes vast improvements in a short space of time and Meath football boss Robbie Brennan knows that the shoe is on the other foot this 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)\">The Royals went into last year with little fanfare, but Brennan quickly turned the tide after taking the reins from Colm O\u2019Rourke, and they picked up massive championship wins over Dublin, eventual All-Ireland champions Kerry and Galway in a roller-coaster summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meath manager Robbie Brennan. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach \/ Sportsfile Expectation comes with the territory when a team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,14610,23501,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-257727","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-meath-gaa","11":"tag-michael-verney","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257727","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=257727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}