{"id":370587,"date":"2026-03-29T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370587\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:29:13","slug":"joe-brolly-yerra-after-avoiding-relegation-and-luckily-getting-to-a-league-final-kerry-may-as-well-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370587\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Brolly: Yerra, after avoiding relegation and luckily getting to a league final, Kerry may as well show up"},"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\">Donegal have been working flat-out on beating David Clifford this year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry's David Clifford in action against Donegal's Brendan McCole during last year's All-Ireland SFC final. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5f5053f5-8ebe-438d-84b3-56330b78d4f0.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)\">Kerry&#8217;s David Clifford in action against Donegal&#8217;s Brendan McCole during last year&#8217;s All-Ireland SFC final. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/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)\">Jack O\u2019Connor said last week: \u201cYerra, we were only aiming to avoid relegation, so we are all a bit surprised to be in a league final. I suppose we got the bit of luck here and there along the way and yerra, we are in Croke Park again and no harm.\u201d<\/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)\">He went on to say: \u201cSure I mean if you look at where the likes of David Clifford was born and reared, \u2019tis hard to believe we have come so far. David was after being born in a manger in Fossa and sure the family hadn\u2019t even the money to buy him a pair of boots when he was small. It was only by the luck of God that Pat Spillane heard about it and sent him some of his old boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal have been working flat-out on beating David Clifford this year Kerry&#8217;s David Clifford in action against Donegal&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,109956,764,6342,61,60,26885,112],"class_list":["post-370587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-allianz-football-league","tag-croke-park","tag-donegal-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-brolly","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370587","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=370587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}