{"id":353850,"date":"2026-03-19T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353850\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:58:10","slug":"mayo-made-to-battle-for-win-over-sligo-in-connacht-u-20-championship-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353850\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo made to battle for win over Sligo in Connacht U-20 championship opener"},"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\">Mayo 0-17 Sligo 0-15\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mayo's Kobe McDonald.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/045296b6-7dc6-4a6a-9a4b-710caf553ac0.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.<\/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)\">Reigning Connacht champions Mayo had to work hard for their two\u2011point win over Sligo in round one of this year\u2019s Connacht Under-20 championship in Kilcoyne Park in Tubbercurry on Wednesday evening.<\/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 sides were level on 15 points apiece with six minutes left, but two points from Darragh Beirne ensured a narrow victory for Keith Higgins\u2019 side, who were heavy favourites coming into this tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayo 0-17 Sligo 0-15 Mayo&#8217;s Kobe McDonald. Reigning Connacht champions Mayo had to work hard for their two\u2011point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4185,106793,112],"class_list":["post-353850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-sligo-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353850","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=353850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}