{"id":363646,"date":"2026-03-25T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363646\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:15:12","slug":"martin-breheny-league-underlines-harsh-reality-facing-dublin-footballers-and-kilkenny-hurlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363646\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: League underlines harsh reality facing Dublin footballers and Kilkenny hurlers"},"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\">Two former powerhouses have lost their aura\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dublin players Con O'Callaghan, right, and Niall Scully react after their defeat against Galway\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b3b8c4c5-dcde-4224-9198-158e0f7a09bd.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)\">Dublin players Con O&#8217;Callaghan, right, and Niall Scully react after their defeat against Galway<\/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)\">Who would have thought it even a few years ago? Dublin footballers not being short odds-on to win the Leinster football championship and Kilkenny hurlers second favourites behind Galway \u2013 now that used to be an unlikely combination.<\/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)\">Not anymore. There\u2019s a new landscape, as seen through the canny eyes of the bookmaking fraternity, who are quoting Dublin footballers at evens in Leinster and Kilkenny hurlers at 13\/8, with Galway at evens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two former powerhouses have lost their aura Dublin players Con O&#8217;Callaghan, right, and Niall Scully react after their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2179,61,60,14611,112],"class_list":["post-363646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363646","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=363646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}