{"id":288267,"date":"2026-02-09T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288267\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:28:11","slug":"offaly-boss-johnny-kelly-backs-ben-oconnors-call-for-reintroduction-of-maor-foirne-role-that-is-absolutely-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288267\/","title":{"rendered":"Offaly boss Johnny Kelly backs Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s call for reintroduction of maor foirne role: \u2018That is absolutely crazy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben Conneely of Offaly has his leg stretched out by his daughter Lia D\u00e1n after his side's defeat in the Division 1A match against Waterford at Azzuri Walsh Park. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/48f46590-c14d-44bf-bd5f-7a1629d3367c.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)\">Ben Conneely of Offaly has his leg stretched out by his daughter Lia D\u00e1n after his side&#8217;s defeat in the Division 1A match against Waterford at Azzuri Walsh Park. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/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)\">Offaly hurling manager Johnny Kelly has described the abolishment of the \u2018maor foirne\u2019 role as \u201cabsolutely crazy\u201d after his team fell to a six-point defeat in Waterford.<\/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 ban on a management team member being able to pass on-field messages to players dates back several years, but the issue has gained renewed traction this spring as one of several gripes raised by new Cork hurling manager Ben O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Conneely of Offaly has his leg stretched out by his daughter Lia D\u00e1n after his side&#8217;s defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7070,61,60,8067,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-288267","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-offaly-gaa","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288267","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=288267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}