{"id":397333,"date":"2026-04-14T04:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:14:13","slug":"hes-gone-through-a-difficult-time-kerry-fc-boss-colin-healy-defends-son-arran-after-fan-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397333\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s gone through a difficult time\u2019 \u2013 Kerry FC boss Colin Healy defends son Arran after fan criticism"},"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\">\u2018Arran wants to be here, he wants to play for Kerry. I&#8217;m here, I want to be at Kerry,\u2019 Healy said\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry FC midfielder Arran Healy Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1c3c7113-51b4-49c7-80ec-e48497ca08d7.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 FC midfielder Arran Healy 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)\">Kerry FC manager Colin Healy has come out strongly in support of his son Arran, whom he also manages, after he was targeted for heavy criticism by a fan in the John O\u2019Regan Stand in Mounthawk Park last Friday evening.<\/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)\">The incident is understood to have involved just a single supporter, whose vocal criticism of Arran veered into persistent heckling. Indeed, the Kerry midfielder\u2019s name was booed by the same fan when the teams were announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Arran wants to be here, he wants to play for Kerry. I&#8217;m here, I want to be at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[116965,61,60,14643,112],"class_list":["post-397333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-damian-stack","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397333","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=397333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}