{"id":267585,"date":"2026-01-28T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267585\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:04:10","slug":"martin-breheny-time-up-for-hooter-and-lets-bin-the-flawed-handover-rule-while-were-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267585\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: Time up for hooter \u2013 and let\u2019s bin the flawed handover rule while we\u2019re at it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry's matchwinner Tom\u00e1s Kennedy celebrates after scoring his side's first goal against Roscommon last Sunday. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ce5a8712-2b1f-4777-86e2-af6bf496e30f.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)\">Kerry&#8217;s matchwinner Tom\u00e1s Kennedy celebrates after scoring his side&#8217;s first goal against Roscommon last Sunday. Photo: Tyler Miller\/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)\">A week into the new season, and already, troubling issues have arisen around time and motion. They should be easily dealt with, but in the confusing world of GAA rules, they have been allowed to become a problem in football.<\/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)\">As luck would have it, both emerged in the same game (Kerry v Roscommon) last Sunday, leading to justifiable concerns that two flawed rules are in place. The first features the decision to end halves once the hooter sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry&#8217;s matchwinner Tom\u00e1s Kennedy celebrates after scoring his side&#8217;s first goal against Roscommon last Sunday. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,17769,61,60,22188,90225,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-267585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-derry-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-martin-breheny","13":"tag-roscommon-gaa","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267585","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=267585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}