{"id":436143,"date":"2026-05-07T02:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436143\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:43:11","slug":"ronan-kelly-the-hero-as-kildare-dethrone-louth-in-thrilling-leinster-u-20-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436143\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronan Kelly the hero as Kildare dethrone Louth in thrilling Leinster U-20 decider"},"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 U-20 FC final: Kildare 0-23 Louth 1-18\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Euan Cowzer of Kildare, centre, celebrates after the Leinster U-20 football final at Parnell Park in Dublin. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9baef2c5-2e5a-4a2c-912a-a36d82d40552.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)\">Euan Cowzer of Kildare, centre, celebrates after the Leinster U-20 football final at Parnell Park in Dublin. 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)\">Kildare dethroned holders Louth after an enthralling battle at Parnell Park to capture the Dalata Group Leinster U-20FC title.<\/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)\">A game that ebbed and flowed throughout seemed to have swung Louth\u2019s way when Tony McDonnell kicked a two-pointer to put them two clear with six minutes remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster U-20 FC final: Kildare 0-23 Louth 1-18 Euan Cowzer of Kildare, centre, celebrates after the Leinster U-20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,3771,100935,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-436143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-kildare-gaa","tag-louth-gaa","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436143","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=436143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}