{"id":449159,"date":"2026-05-14T21:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449159\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:49:35","slug":"all-ireland-u-20-football-final-to-get-weekend-date-after-midweek-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449159\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland U-20 football final to get weekend date after midweek complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom\u00e1s Kennedy celebrates after Wednesday night's All-Ireland U20FC semi-final win against Roscommon at FBD Semple Stadium in Thurles. Photo: Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3455479.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)\">Tom\u00e1s Kennedy celebrates after Wednesday night&#8217;s All-Ireland U20FC semi-final win against Roscommon at FBD Semple Stadium in Thurles. Photo: Paul Phelan\/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)\">The Dalata Hotel Group All-Ireland U-20 football final between champions Tyrone and Kerry looks set to take place on a weekend, not midweek like both semi-finals.<\/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)\">The decision to fix the semi-finals for midweek dates drew criticism from both managers after the game in Thurles, where Kerry beat Roscommon after extra-time, with Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 and Cian Smith venting frustration at what was asked of players, management and supporters to make a 7.30 start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom\u00e1s Kennedy celebrates after Wednesday night&#8217;s All-Ireland U20FC semi-final win against Roscommon at FBD Semple Stadium in Thurles.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6937,20965,61,60,43,60860],"class_list":["post-449159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-colm-keys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tyrone-gaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449159","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=449159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}