{"id":399024,"date":"2026-04-15T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399024\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:08:11","slug":"martin-breheny-privileged-pundits-on-the-sunday-game-know-very-little-about-life-in-lower-ranked-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399024\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: Privileged pundits on The Sunday Game know very little about life in lower-ranked land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian Fenton has joined The Sunday Game as a pundit. Photo: Owen Breslin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IS POD_2.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)\">Brian Fenton has joined The Sunday Game as a pundit. Photo: Owen Breslin<\/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)\">In much the same way as a big soccer club might welcome a top-class star, RT\u00c9 flashed out a glowing press release last week informing the GAA world that they had signed Brian Fenton for their football pundits\u2019 team.<\/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)\">Referring to him as \u201cone of football\u2019s greatest ever players, a cornerstone of Dublin\u2019s dominance\u201d, they promised that \u201che will bring a wealth of experience and insight to the RT\u00c9 panel\u201d. There was more: they also introduced him as the fifth Footballer of the Year on the panel, joining Peter Canavan, Tom\u00e1s O S\u00e9, Se\u00e1n Cavanagh and Lee Keegan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Fenton has joined The Sunday Game as a pundit. Photo: Owen Breslin In much the same way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,22188,112],"class_list":["post-399024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-martin-breheny","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399024","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=399024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}