{"id":445118,"date":"2026-05-12T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445118\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:07:09","slug":"heslin-returns-to-westmeath-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445118\/","title":{"rendered":"Heslin returns to Westmeath training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Heslin returns to Westmeath training<br \/>\n                May 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9210c466-0da8-4b0a-a03e-e5bc148a5a25.jpg\"\/><br \/>Westmeath&#8217;s John Heslin during the 2022 Tailteann Cup final \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan Byrne<\/p>\n<p>John Heslin has made a sensational return to the Westmeath set-up ahead of Sunday&#8217;s Leinster SFC final against Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The former talisman, who announced his inter-county retirement in January 2025 and will turn 34 next month, took part in a training session last weekend. Heslin is part of a training panel at present, but with Luke Loughlin ruled out for the rest of the season with a Grade 4 hamstring tear, his involvement has inevitably given rise to speculation that he could be part of the match-day squad come\u00a0Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Heslin, who has been in excellent scoring form for his club St Loman&#8217;s of late, was on punditry duty for GAA+ when Westmeath defeated Kildare after extra-time in the semi-final last Sunday week.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemount&#8217;s Andy McCormack has also returned to the training panel after a spell abroad.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-lang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Most Read Stories<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heslin returns to Westmeath training May 12, 2026 Westmeath&#8217;s John Heslin during the 2022 Tailteann Cup final \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-445118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/445118","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=445118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}