{"id":430960,"date":"2026-05-04T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:24:11","slug":"even-minus-luke-loughlin-mark-mchughs-maroon-marvels-march-on-to-just-their-sixth-leinster-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430960\/","title":{"rendered":"Even minus Luke Loughlin, Mark McHugh\u2019s maroon marvels march on to just their\u00a0sixth Leinster final"},"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 SFC semi-final: Westmeath 2-21 Kildare 0-23 (AET\u2013 1-16 to 0-19 after regular time)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shane Allen of Westmeath celebrates after his side's victory in the Leinster SFC semi-final against Kildare at Glenisk O'Connor Park in Tullamore, Offaly. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3445336.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)\">Shane Allen of Westmeath celebrates after his side&#8217;s victory in the Leinster SFC semi-final against Kildare at Glenisk O&#8217;Connor Park in Tullamore, Offaly. Photo by 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)\">Clearly, there is more to Westmeath than Luke Loughlin, for all the magic powers contained in his wand of a left boot.<\/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)\">And even with the irrepressible Matthew Whittaker on one good leg, Mark McHugh\u2019s team will find a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster SFC semi-final: Westmeath 2-21 Kildare 0-23 (AET\u2013 1-16 to 0-19 after regular time) Shane Allen of Westmeath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7070,42,3771,43,40,38,41,39,74467],"class_list":["post-430960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-frank-roche","tag-headlines","tag-kildare-gaa","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-westmeath-gaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430960","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=430960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}