{"id":421164,"date":"2026-04-28T05:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:49:13","slug":"frank-roche-god-help-mayos-castlebar-record-but-does-home-venue-really-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421164\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Roche: God help Mayo\u2019s Castlebar record \u2026 but does home venue really help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mayo manager Andy Moran reacts during the closing stages of their defeat in the Connacht SFC semi-final against Roscommon at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park in Castlebar. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sports3439060.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)\">Mayo manager Andy Moran reacts during the closing stages of their defeat in the Connacht SFC semi-final against Roscommon at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park in Castlebar. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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)\">The reasons for Mayo\u2019s latest championship meltdown are countless, but one of many morose punters on the Mayo Football Talk website spied a morsel of hope amid the wreckage.<\/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)\">\u201cFirst, the good news,\u201d \u2018Catcall\u2019 began. \u201cWe won\u2019t be playing our next game in MacHale Park. Have we won any championship game of consequence at home in recent years?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayo manager Andy Moran reacts during the closing stages of their defeat in the Connacht SFC semi-final against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[165838,6342,7070,61,60,4185,112],"class_list":["post-421164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-ireland-senior-football-championship","tag-donegal-gaa","tag-frank-roche","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421164","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=421164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}