{"id":348118,"date":"2026-03-15T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:19:09","slug":"conor-mckeon-anyone-who-thinks-armagh-cant-win-an-all-ireland-isnt-watching-them-closely-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348118\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: Anyone who thinks Armagh can\u2019t win an All-Ireland isn\u2019t watching them closely enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney was handed a yellow card during his side's clash with Dublin at Croke Park. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3391705.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)\">Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney was handed a yellow card during his side&#8217;s clash with Dublin at Croke Park. 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)\">Curious how a man of Kieran McGeeney\u2019s earthly wisdom could be remotely preoccupied with what the rest of us think of him or his team.<\/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)\">There he was on Saturday night in Croke Park, rattling off universal retention rates of kick-outs as they pertain to distance, giving an impromptu symposium on why the \u2018three up\u2019 rule deters kicked attacking deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney was handed a yellow card during his side&#8217;s clash with Dublin at Croke Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20803,7277,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-348118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-armagh-gaa","tag-conor-mckeon","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348118","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=348118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}