{"id":266931,"date":"2026-01-27T18:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:39:14","slug":"it-was-a-lot-of-drink-talk-too-john-small-on-why-he-returned-last-season-and-what-he-sees-coming-for-current-dubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266931\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a lot of drink talk, too!\u2019\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Small on why he returned last season and what he sees coming for current Dubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Dublin footballer John Small at the launch of the Guaranteed Irish campaign entitled \u2018Are You in The Guaranteed Irish Club\u2019 calling on its business members who are actively involved in the GAA to take part in a nationwide community reward programme. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sports3326692.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)\">Former Dublin footballer John Small at the launch of the Guaranteed Irish campaign entitled \u2018Are You in The Guaranteed Irish Club\u2019 calling on its business members who are actively involved in the GAA to take part in a nationwide community reward programme. Photo: 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)\">On Saturday evening last, John Small buckled up and braced himself for the wind and rain on the short walk down Drumcondra Road to Croke Park for Dublin\u2019s opening Division 1 league game against Donegal.<\/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)\">With him was his five-year-old son, Charlie, curious to know more about the game and the presence of his uncle Paddy on the Dublin team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dublin footballer John Small at the launch of the Guaranteed Irish campaign entitled \u2018Are You in The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20965,2179,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-266931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-colm-keys","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266931","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=266931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}