{"id":402621,"date":"2026-04-17T01:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:49:12","slug":"ciaran-kilkenny-out-but-con-ocallaghan-returns-as-dubs-name-three-debutants-for-wicklow-leinster-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402621\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciar\u00e1n Kilkenny out but Con O\u2019Callaghan returns as Dubs name three debutants for Wicklow Leinster opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dublin's captain Con O'Callaghan is central to the Sky Blues' summer hopes and will start in Aughrim. Picture: SPORTSFILE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0fd04ad3-4b08-4326-bec3-82720810e343.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)\">Dublin&#8217;s captain Con O&#8217;Callaghan is central to the Sky Blues&#8217; summer hopes and will start in Aughrim. Picture: 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)\">Ciar\u00e1n Kilkenny is an absentee as Dublin name three championship debutants in their starting team to face Wicklow for their opening Leinster Championship game, a quarter-final in Aughrim on Sunday.<\/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)\">Captain Con O&#8217;Callaghan is named to start, having only come off the bench against Galway, the game that was lost to put them down to Division 2. His full return will bring comfort given his leadership, though Kilkenny&#8217;s loss could hit hard. The seven-time All-Ireland winner and now longest serving player featured against Galway four weeks ago and the presumption is he is injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin&#8217;s captain Con O&#8217;Callaghan is central to the Sky Blues&#8217; summer hopes and will start in Aughrim. Picture:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20965,2179,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-402621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-colm-keys","9":"tag-dublin-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402621","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=402621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}