{"id":297123,"date":"2026-02-14T04:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:11:19","slug":"philly-mcmahon-every-great-team-depends-on-people-you-never-hear-about-people-like-shane-ohanlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297123\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly McMahon: Every great team depends on people you never hear about \u2013 people like Shane O\u2019Hanlon"},"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\">O\u2019Hanlon was the man who got things done in the Dublin set-up \u2013 he was like a father, looking after us\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There aren\u2019t enough hours in the day to retell them all about Shane O'Hanlon. If there was a Daddy to the Dublin football team, it was Shane. He looked after us all. Photo: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2197299.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)\">There aren\u2019t enough hours in the day to retell them all about Shane O&#8217;Hanlon. If there was a Daddy to the Dublin football team, it was Shane. He looked after us all. Photo: Ray McManus\/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)\">I got a text from Eoghan O\u2019Gara the other day that hit like a jackhammer to the jaw. Tuesday was the second anniversary of Shane O\u2019Hanlon\u2019s death. Two years. F**k.<\/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)\">In our ex-Dublin players WhatsApp group, lads were sharing memories. There aren\u2019t enough hours in the day to retell them all about Shane. But it was nice realising you were having the same feelings about Shane and his loss as everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Hanlon was the man who got things done in the Dublin set-up \u2013 he was like a father,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2179,61,60,16596,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-297123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dublin-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-philly-mcmahon","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297123","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=297123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}