{"id":454730,"date":"2026-05-18T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454730\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:55:07","slug":"absolutely-marvellous-westmeath-bask-in-final-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454730\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Absolutely marvellous’ – Westmeath bask in final glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

The chairperson of Westmeath GAA has described as “absolutely marvellous” the county’s Leinster Senior Football Championship victory and the subsequent celebrations.<\/p>\n

Thousands of fans gathered in Mullingar yesterday evening to greet the victorious Westmeath team with celebrations going on into the night across the county.<\/p>\n

Westmeath defeated Dublin on a scoreline of 2-28 to 0-26<\/a> after extra time at Croke Park to win the county\u2019s second-ever senior men\u2019s provincial title, bridging a 22-year gap to the county\u2019s maiden triumph.<\/p>\n

Watch: ‘It means everything’ – Westmeath fans celebrate Leinster final victory<\/p>\n

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Chairperson Paddy Wallace said the victory and celebrations are “great for our county”.<\/p>\n

He noted that the county are Leinster champions in both women’s and men’s football, with the Westmeath ladies football team defeating Wexford on Saturday to win the intermediate title.<\/p>\n

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Mr Wallace said that everyone was feeling fantastic today and thanked the crowds who came out last night and yesterday in support.<\/p>\n

“Coming home with the cup was absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n

“It’s absolutely marvellous, a great occasion for Westmeath and on to better things moving forward.”<\/p>\n

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\nThe victory earned Westmeath only its second ever Delaney Cup<\/p>\n

By better things, he means the “huge game” on Sunday week against Cavan in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.<\/p>\n

“I would encourage all the supporters to get out behind us again.<\/p>\n

“Who knows where it\u2019s going to end,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chairperson of Westmeath GAA has described as “absolutely marvellous” the county’s Leinster Senior Football Championship victory and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-454730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454730","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=454730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}