{"id":390156,"date":"2026-04-09T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:56:12","slug":"confirmed-cork-free-at-the-end-of-division-2-final-against-meath-should-have-been-advanced-50-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390156\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Cork free at the end of Division 2 final against Meath should have been advanced 50 metres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cork's Maurice Shanley in action against Meath's Bryan Menton (8) and Aaron Lynch during the Allianz Football League Division 2 final at Croke Park. Photo:  Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/531c445e-beba-46ab-b5cb-fb7d5dbce766.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)\">Cork&#8217;s Maurice Shanley in action against Meath&#8217;s Bryan Menton (8) and Aaron Lynch during the Allianz Football League Division 2 final at Croke Park. Photo:  Seb Daly\/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)\">Cork should have had a free in the closing stages of their recent Allianz Division 2 final defeat to Meath advanced 50 metres, referees and rules administrators have agreed.<\/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)\">At a pre-championship referees&#8217; seminar last weekend, an incident late in the game, where the Meath forward James Conlon deliberately pulled down Cork defender Maurice Shanley in the Cork half of the field with seconds on the clock remining before the hooter sounded to conclude, was discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s Maurice Shanley in action against Meath&#8217;s Bryan Menton (8) and Aaron Lynch during the Allianz Football League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[165838,109956,20965,1964,764,61,60,14610,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-390156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-all-ireland-senior-football-championship","9":"tag-allianz-football-league","10":"tag-colm-keys","11":"tag-cork-gaa","12":"tag-croke-park","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-meath-gaa","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390156","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=390156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}