{"id":395297,"date":"2026-04-12T21:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395297\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:31:12","slug":"maybe-i-thought-it-was-directed-at-me-oisin-mcconville-takes-aim-at-carlow-boss-joe-murphy-over-outside-influence-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395297\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Maybe I thought it was directed at me\u2019 \u2013 Ois\u00edn McConville takes aim at Carlow boss Joe Murphy over \u2018outside influence\u2019 comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wicklow manager Ois\u00edn McConville took exception to comments made by Carlow counterpart Joe Murphy about &quot;outside influences&quot; not being needed on his management team. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b8259294-f86a-497c-8f2a-11a230c4d601.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)\">Wicklow manager Ois\u00edn McConville took exception to comments made by Carlow counterpart Joe Murphy about &#8220;outside influences&#8221; not being needed on his management team. Photo: 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)\">Wicklow boss Ois\u00edn McConville fired back at Carlow counterpart Joe Murphy and insisted that &#8220;we all have to go and find opportunities in other places&#8221; after the latter&#8217;s comments following their Division 4 final success.<\/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)\">Murphy spoke last month about it maybe being &#8220;a lesson for the future&#8221; that the Barrowsiders &#8220;didn&#8217;t need any outside influence&#8221; in their backroom team, but McConville took great umbrage to his remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wicklow manager Ois\u00edn McConville took exception to comments made by Carlow counterpart Joe Murphy about &#8220;outside influences&#8221; not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[146061,2179,61,60,174935,112,146060],"class_list":{"0":"post-395297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-carlow-gaa","9":"tag-dublin-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-oisin-mcconville","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wicklow-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395297","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=395297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}