{"id":318219,"date":"2026-02-26T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:45:08","slug":"big-trio-facing-the-drop-offaly-learning-hard-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318219\/","title":{"rendered":"Big trio facing the drop, Offaly learning hard lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathal Mullaney is joined by Peter Canavan, Michael Duignan and Conor Neville to set the scene ahead of another weekend of Allianz League action.<\/p>\n<p>Monaghan&#8217;s race might be run in Division 1, but who of Armagh, Dublin or Galway will join them in the drop?<\/p>\n<p>At the other end, Roscommon continue to impress as the seek a trip to a first top flight league final since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>In hurling, Offaly are learning tough lessons in Division 1A, while the loser of Galway and Waterford on Sunday might be going down with them.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the RT\u00c9 GAA Podcast on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/podcasts\/22587736-armagh-dublin-and-galway-facing-the-drop-offaly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RT\u00c9 Radio Player<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ie\/podcast\/armagh-dublin-and-galway-facing-the-drop-offaly\/id885768269?i=1000751709539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3qm6BD3SzgLnGu9dsoRXpu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/podcasts\/series\/20933-rte-gaa-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Kildare v Meath in the Allianz Football League on Saturday from 6.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n<p>Watch Allianz League Sunday from 9.35pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on all matches on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to Sunday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cathal Mullaney is joined by Peter Canavan, Michael Duignan and Conor Neville to set the scene ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-318219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318219","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=318219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}