{"id":346999,"date":"2026-03-15T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346999\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:46:10","slug":"joe-brolly-kobe-mcdonald-is-better-off-staying-far-away-from-mayos-old-pals-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346999\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Brolly: Kobe McDonald is better off staying far away from Mayo\u2019s old pals\u2019 act"},"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\">Kerry are building for the future while Andy Moran looks stuck in the past\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mayo's Kobe McDonald in action against Joe O'Connor of Kerry. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3391134.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)\">Mayo&#8217;s Kobe McDonald in action against Joe O&#8217;Connor of Kerry. 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)\">Typical Mayo. They finally have a scoring superstar and he emigrates. After electrifying the game as a 16 and 17-year-old, when it was announced Kobe McDonald was going at the end of this season, the Mayo people\u2019s disappointment was like the time the Templenoe parish priest told his flock that Pat Spillane\u2019s first baby was a girl.<\/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)\">\u201cI know we are all disappointed, but I suppose it must be God\u2019s will.\u201d   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry are building for the future while Andy Moran looks stuck in the past Mayo&#8217;s Kobe McDonald in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,109956,14609,61,60,26885,4185,112],"class_list":["post-346999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-allianz-football-league","tag-david-clifford","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-brolly","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346999","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=346999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}