{"id":321398,"date":"2026-02-28T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321398\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:02:13","slug":"philly-mcmahon-winning-would-change-everything-for-mayo-and-thats-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321398\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly McMahon: Winning would change everything for Mayo \u2013 and that\u2019s the problem"},"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\">It\u2019s still early doors but Andy Moran\u2019s men are the most interesting team out there right now\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryan O'Donoghue is the best Mayo forward I've ever seen. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3dabf2cc-148f-4b8e-8ba6-8f0033f93a08.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)\">Ryan O&#8217;Donoghue is the best Mayo forward I&#8217;ve ever seen. Photo: Sam Barnes\/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)\">Mayo fascinate me. Culturally, they are unique in Gaelic football. Their yearning for the big one is more intense than anywhere else. The whole place, it\u2019s on tenterhooks.<\/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 thing feels like it could either explode into a huge tidal wave of positive energy that lifts the team towards success. Or it could combust and bring it all in on itself and crush everyone. Often, in the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s still early doors but Andy Moran\u2019s men are the most interesting team out there right now Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4185,16596,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-321398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mayo-gaa","11":"tag-philly-mcmahon","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321398","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=321398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}