{"id":371669,"date":"2026-03-29T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:26:09","slug":"donegal-hammer-all-ireland-champs-kerry-in-division-one-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371669\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal hammer All-Ireland champs Kerry in Division One decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Shaun Casey<\/p>\n<p>Donegal 3-20 Kerry 2-10<\/p>\n<p>Donegal are the new Division One league champions following their landslide victory against All-Ireland champions Kerry. In a repeat of last year\u2019s All-Ireland decider, it was Donegal who dominated this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Man of the match Michael Langan kicked the first five-points for Jim McGuinness\u2019 men, while Keith Evans hit the net for Kerry after David Clifford\u2019s opening score. Michael Murphy soon got in on the scoring act, kicking a two-point free.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal fired over ten unanswered points while Kerry eventually ended their dry spell with a point from Sean O\u2019Shea, leaving Donegal eight up at the break, 0-13 to 1-2.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back Ulster champions got off to a dream start in the second half with three goals in as many minutes. Conor O\u2019Donnell, Michael Murphy and Caolan McGonagle rattled the net to essentially end the game as a contest.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford grabbed a second three-pointer for the Kingdom, and Gavin Mulreany pulled off a excellent stop to deny Tom\u00e1s Kennedy, as Donegal cruised to a comfortable win.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal Scorers: M Murphy 1-5 (2tpf, 1f), M Langan 0-6, C O\u2019Donnell 1-1, M Campbell 0-3, R McHugh 0-3, C McGonagle 1-0, P Mogan 0-1, F Roarty 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Scorers: D Clifford 1-1, K Evans 1-1, P Geaney 0-2, A Heinrich 0-2, T O\u2019Sullivan 0-1, T Kennedy 0-1, D Geaney 0-1, S O\u2019Shea 0-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Shaun Casey Donegal 3-20 Kerry 2-10 Donegal are the new Division One league champions following their landslide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-371669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371669","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=371669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}