{"id":431016,"date":"2026-05-04T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431016\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:28:10","slug":"these-things-can-come-and-go-kieran-mcgeeney-tries-to-play-down-hype-after-armaghs-historic-semi-win-over-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018These things can come and go\u2019 \u2013 Kieran McGeeney tries to play down hype after Armagh\u2019s historic semi win over Down"},"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\">Ulster SFC semi-final: Armagh 3-33 Down 0-14\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ois\u00edn O'Neill of Armagh kicks a two-point score during the Ulster SFC semi-final against Down at St Tiernach's Park in Clones, Monaghan. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3445386.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)\">Ois\u00edn O&#8217;Neill of Armagh kicks a two-point score during the Ulster SFC semi-final against Down at St Tiernach&#8217;s Park in Clones, Monaghan. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">It\u2019s a case of \u201ceaten bread is soon forgotten\u201d for Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney despite putting up the biggest score in Ulster SFC history en route to setting up a provincial final date with Monaghan.<\/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)\">There was only one team in it from 15 minutes onwards, with the Orchard men delivering a scintillating attacking display against a Down side devoid of energy just a week after producing the shock of the summer for the ages against Donegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster SFC semi-final: Armagh 3-33 Down 0-14 Ois\u00edn O&#8217;Neill of Armagh kicks a two-point score during the Ulster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20803,82612,61,60,23501,112],"class_list":["post-431016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-armagh-gaa","tag-down-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-verney","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431016","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=431016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}