{"id":415279,"date":"2026-04-24T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:52:07","slug":"kerry-boys-should-have-dealt-with-murphy-after-casey-hit-o-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415279\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry boys should have \u2018dealt with\u2019 Murphy after Casey hit &#8211; \u00d3 S\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kerry star Darragh O&#8217;S\u00e9 said he\u2019s disappointed with their county players following the League Final hammering to Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>However, he\u2019s not angry with their performance, but that the men from the Kingdom hadn\u2019t \u2018dealt with\u2019 Michael Murphy after he struck Dylan Casey in the opening 15 minutes. The Glenswilly man escaped with a yellow card, much to the disappointment of O&#8217;S\u00e9 and co.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was in the Kerry dressing room, I\u2019d have taken only one thing out of the final \u2013 and it\u2019s nothing to do with the result,&#8221; he wrote in today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/gaelic-games\/2026\/04\/22\/darragh-o-se-kerry-should-have-dealt-with-michael-murphy-the-moment-he-punched-dylan-casey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was one of Casey\u2019s teammates, I wouldn\u2019t want to hear a word about David Gough or Conor Lane or disciplinary committees or anything like that. I\u2019d be looking in the mirror. Murphy should have been dealt with there and then, on the pitch. Great fella, brilliant footballer, whatever. A box in the jaw is a box in the jaw and you can\u2019t be a team who lets that slide. Murphy needed to be reminded of that and if it meant a Kerry player taking a card, so be it\u2026. But nobody said boo to him, never mind gave him a clipping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, \u00d3 S\u00e9 went on to speak glowingly of Murphy, describing him as, still, one of the best and most influential players in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kerry star Darragh O&#8217;S\u00e9 said he\u2019s disappointed with their county players following the League Final hammering to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-415279","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415279","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=415279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}