{"id":407443,"date":"2026-04-20T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407443\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:13:15","slug":"louths-shaky-start-and-disjointed-play-give-boss-gavin-devlin-something-to-think-about-ahead-of-dublin-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407443\/","title":{"rendered":"Louth\u2019s shaky start and disjointed play give boss Gavin Devlin something to think about ahead of Dublin clash"},"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\">Leinster Senior Football Championship\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louth manager Gavin Devlin during the Leinster Senior Football Championship quarter-final against Wexford at Netwatch Cullen Park in Carlow. Photo by Michael P Ryan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ca16cd41-d41f-4d07-9ed1-39ae4c88563c.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)\">Louth manager Gavin Devlin during the Leinster Senior Football Championship quarter-final against Wexford at Netwatch Cullen Park in Carlow. Photo by Michael P Ryan\/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)\">In the end it may have been a stroll in the Carlow sun for Louth as they saw off Wexford with ease but only after an indifferent start, when Wexford took the game to the Leinster champions at Network Cullen Park to lead 0-3 to 0-0 after six minutes.<\/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)\">However, once Louth, who hadn\u2019t played a competitive game for four weeks, settled into the match and took the lead for the first time after 21 minutes, there was only going to be one outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster Senior Football Championship Louth manager Gavin Devlin during the Leinster Senior Football Championship quarter-final against Wexford at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,100935,179256,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-407443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-louth-gaa","11":"tag-paul-welsh","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407443","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=407443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}