{"id":424183,"date":"2026-04-29T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424183\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:02:11","slug":"goals-at-crucial-times-see-roscommon-crowned-connacht-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424183\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals at crucial times see Roscommon crowned Connacht champions"},"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\">Connacht U20FC final: Roscommon 5-16 Mayo 2-22\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roscommon players celebrate their Connacht U20 Football Championship final win over Mayo at Tuam Stadium in Galway. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aacb2454-a963-4674-9ab6-5376d026d03d.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)\">Roscommon players celebrate their Connacht U20 Football Championship final win over Mayo at Tuam Stadium in Galway. 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)\">Roscommon are Connacht U20 football champions for the second time in three years after an incredible victory, following extra-time, in a provincial final for the ages at Tuam Stadium.<\/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)\">Cian Smith\u2019s side\u2019s ability to get goals at crucial times alongside their never-say-die attitude kept them alive, and they eventually snapped Mayo\u2019s resistance to claim silverware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht U20FC final: Roscommon 5-16 Mayo 2-22 Roscommon players celebrate their Connacht U20 Football Championship final win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,4185,43,90225,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-424183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news","tag-roscommon-gaa","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424183","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=424183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}