{"id":385573,"date":"2026-04-07T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385573\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:21:10","slug":"they-are-up-there-on-merit-now-and-they-are-contenders-dundalk-joy-on-stephen-kennys-night-of-mixed-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385573\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They are up there on merit now and they are contenders\u2019 \u2013 Dundalk joy on Stephen Kenny\u2019s night of mixed emotions"},"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\">\nDundalk 2 St Patrick\u2019s Athletic 0\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Patrick's Athletic manager Stephen Kenny congratulates his son, Dundalk's Eoin Kenny, after their Airtricity Premier Division tie at Oriel Park. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6b94e584-6513-404b-8059-336ecbe8d369.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)\">St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny congratulates his son, Dundalk&#8217;s Eoin Kenny, after their Airtricity Premier Division tie at Oriel Park. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">For a man who was once treated as a messiah in these parts, it was a strange Easter Monday for Stephen Kenny.<\/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)\">When the Oriel Park crowd rose to applaud his son Eoin in the second half, it should have been a lovely moment for all the family especially as his friend \u2013 another local Shane Tracey \u2013 had scored a first-half goal that helped to seal the points for the hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundalk 2 St Patrick\u2019s Athletic 0 St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny congratulates his son, Dundalk&#8217;s Eoin Kenny,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3264,2538,42,43,16489,38384,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-385573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-dundalk-fc","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","13":"tag-stephen-kenny","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385573","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=385573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}