{"id":449210,"date":"2026-05-14T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:27:08","slug":"galway-footballer-sean-fitzgerald-in-shake-up-to-appear-on-love-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449210\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway footballer Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald in shake-up to appear on Love Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galway senior footballer Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald is in the shake-up to appear on the reality TV show  Love Island.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald, 25, is shortlisted to be a contestant on the British dating programme, which is set in Majorca and starts on ITV on June 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A primary school teacher, Fitzgerald was not part of Galway\u2019s matchday squad for last Sunday\u2019s Connacht SFC final defeat to Roscommon in King &amp; Moffat Dr Hyde Park, nor was he one of the four standby players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The defender\u2019s previous appearance for the team came at full-back against Leitrim in the provincial semi-final in Carrick-on-Shannon last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Known also for his social media profile primarily on\u00a0TikTok,\u00a0Fitzgerald is signed to\u00a0Marvel,\u00a0an Irish talent and influencer management agency. In February, Fitzgerald published a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@fitzy.007\/video\/7607915196069317910\"> TikTok video<\/a> where he expressed his interest in appearing on the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Bearna clubman made his senior debut for Galway in 2022 and his first SFC appearance a year later. He started the \u201924 All-Ireland final and has won four consecutive Connacht SFC championship medals. Fitzgerald won an U20 All-Ireland title in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In an interview with  RSVP magazine last year, Fitzgerald was asked about the best advice he had received.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cTwo bits of advice from over the years have stuck with me. The first is, \u2018Don\u2019t care about what anyone thinks\u2019. If I cared about what other people thought of me, I would not be where I am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe amount of confidence and self-worth you gain from not caring about what other people think is honestly scary. You become the best version of yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe second piece of advice I heard that stuck with me is, \u2018If you\u2019re gonna piss like a puppy, stay on the porch, let the big dogs eat\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWhenever I doubt myself in life, whether it\u2019s sport-related or otherwise, I say this to myself in my head. It\u2019s simple, positive self-talk that reminds me I am good enough to do whatever it is I\u2019m doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Several Irish people have featured on  Love Island, which started in 2005. Former Kilnadeema-Leitrim hurler Dylan Towolawi appeared in season 6, as did ex-Ireland Sevens rugby player Greg O\u2019Shea and Maura Higgins in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In last season\u2019s series, former Munster academy player Conor Phillips and Dubliner Megan Forte Clarke were contestants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Galway face Kildare in their opening All-Ireland SFC clash in Pearse Stadium on Saturday week. Their second-round game takes place three weeks later on June 13 or 14.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway senior footballer Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald is in the shake-up to appear on the reality TV show Love Island.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30883,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-449210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-galway-gaa","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\/449210","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=449210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}