{"id":419067,"date":"2026-04-26T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419067\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:35:09","slug":"the-longest-80-minutes-of-my-life-mark-mchugh-reflects-on-a-poignant-and-historic-day-for-st-marys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419067\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The longest 80 minutes of my life\u2019 \u2013 Mark McHugh reflects on a poignant and historic day for St Mary\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Mary's captain Conor Dean celebrates with his father, former Ireland international, Paul Dean, mother Lorraine and sister Holly, after the Energia All-Ireland League Division 1A final win over Clontarf at the Aviva Stadiumn. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/78edffbc-b9c2-46c9-851e-f3ee98f608b9.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)\">St Mary&#8217;s captain Conor Dean celebrates with his father, former Ireland international, Paul Dean, mother Lorraine and sister Holly, after the Energia All-Ireland League Division 1A final win over Clontarf at the Aviva Stadiumn. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">Twenty six years ago, Mark McHugh was part of the St Mary\u2019s squad who won the AIL. On sunday, he was the head coach who led them back to the promised land.<\/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)\">Asked for his feelings in the minutes after, he said. \u201cIt was the longest 80 minutes of my life. Coaching is really enjoyable when you&#8217;re actually on the park coaching guys, but the 80 minutes on a Saturday or Sunday can be really difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Mary&#8217;s captain Conor Dean celebrates with his father, former Ireland international, Paul Dean, mother Lorraine and sister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-419067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419067","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=419067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}