{"id":315563,"date":"2026-02-25T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:00:10","slug":"martin-breheny-the-gpa-is-on-a-collision-course-with-control-freak-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315563\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: The GPA is on a collision course with control-freak managers"},"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\">Players know they can gain commercially by ditching \u2018silence is golden\u2019 policy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Se\u00e1n McCague during his time as manager of the Monaghan footballers. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c998e581-3263-4a51-9ec7-baf901d0b850.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)\">Se\u00e1n McCague during his time as manager of the Monaghan footballers. 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)\">A few months after I got a job with the Irish Press Group in 1979, Monaghan won the Ulster title for the first time since 1938.<\/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)\">Prior to the All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry, I was despatched to Monaghan with a brief to convey the atmosphere and to interview as many players as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players know they can gain commercially by ditching \u2018silence is golden\u2019 policy Se\u00e1n McCague during his time as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4183,61,60,22188,112],"class_list":["post-315563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-martin-breheny","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315563","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=315563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}