{"id":260488,"date":"2026-01-23T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260488\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:54:09","slug":"frank-roche-mayos-comeback-kids-can-andy-morans-returnees-deliver-glory-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260488\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Roche: Mayo\u2019s \u2018comeback kids\u2019 \u2013 can Andy Moran\u2019s returnees deliver glory in 2026?"},"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\">From Keaveney to Darby to Cluxton, football has a history of All-Ireland resurrection sagas \u2026 but can Cillian O\u2019Connor &amp; Co truly reignite the west?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Moran has got Cillian O'Connor (left), James Carr, Conor Loftus, Rob Hennelly and Michael Plunkett back into the Mayo fold.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01dcac5f-e0d9-4f64-9e74-8f70f845f160.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)\">Andy Moran has got Cillian O&#8217;Connor (left), James Carr, Conor Loftus, Rob Hennelly and Michael Plunkett back into the Mayo fold.<\/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)\">What makes the perfect GAA comeback story? It invariably combines the exhilarating mix of a bombshell return and a fairy-tale finale on the steps of the Hogan.<\/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)\">It could be Offaly veteran S\u00e9amus Darby, recalled from the scrapheap, scoring the most famous goal in Gaelic football lore just a few months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Keaveney to Darby to Cluxton, football has a history of All-Ireland resurrection sagas \u2026 but can Cillian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7070,61,60,4185,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-260488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-frank-roche","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mayo-gaa","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260488","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=260488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}