{"id":263983,"date":"2026-01-26T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:01:08","slug":"corks-fast-start-and-unselfish-play-delight-ben-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263983\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s fast start and unselfish play delight Ben O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Glad of the win. Almost more glad to have the game out of the way. No more \u2018first of this\u2019 and \u2018first of that\u2019 chat. The tape has  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41782157.html\">officially been cut on the era of Ben<\/a>. And there\u2019s no one happier than the new boss himself to see the scissors put away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere was a lot of stuff going on all week that wasn&#8217;t in our control, they were talking about &#8216;how are they going to play&#8217;, &#8216;who are they going to pick&#8217;, or &#8216;what&#8217;s going to happen here&#8217;. But look, we&#8217;ve done very little with the lads. They&#8217;re good hurlers, they know what they are at, so just let them in and let them at it. Just happy to have it out of the way, if I&#8217;m being honest,\u201d remarked the Cork manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glad of the win. Almost more glad to have the game out of the way. No more \u2018first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-263983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-hurling","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263983","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=263983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}