{"id":320943,"date":"2026-02-28T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:33:09","slug":"wexfords-derek-kent-elected-as-next-gaa-president-on-first-count-at-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320943\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford\u2019s Derek Kent elected as next GAA president on first count at Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GAA presidential candidate Derek Kent, left, is congratulated by Ard Sti\u00farth\u00f3ir of the GAA Tom Ryan, centre, and Uachtar\u00e1n Chumann L\u00fathchleas Gael Jarlath Burn after he was voted in as Uachtar\u00e1n Tofa Chumann L\u00fathchleas Gael, to become GAA President in 2027 on day one of the GAA Annual Congress at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3370835.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)\">GAA presidential candidate Derek Kent, left, is congratulated by Ard Sti\u00farth\u00f3ir of the GAA Tom Ryan, centre, and Uachtar\u00e1n Chumann L\u00fathchleas Gael Jarlath Burn after he was voted in as Uachtar\u00e1n Tofa Chumann L\u00fathchleas Gael, to become GAA President in 2027 on day one of the GAA Annual Congress at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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)\">Derek Kent has been elected the 42nd president of the GAA at Congress in Croke Park tonight.<\/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)\">Kent beat Tipperary\u2019s Ger Ryan, the former Munster GAA chair, and Sligo\u2019s John Murphy, the former Connacht GAA chair, in an election to succeed Jarlath Burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAA presidential candidate Derek Kent, left, is congratulated by Ard Sti\u00farth\u00f3ir of the GAA Tom Ryan, centre, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20965,42,43,40,38,41,39,14612],"class_list":{"0":"post-320943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-colm-keys","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-wexford-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320943","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=320943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}