{"id":455429,"date":"2026-05-18T20:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455429\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:12:15","slug":"wexfords-all-ireland-hopes-are-dashed-by-fine-down-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455429\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford\u2019s All-Ireland hopes are dashed by fine Down second-half"},"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\">\nDown 0-22 Wexford 1-15\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wexford joint-captains Brian Roban and Cathal Kehoe with Down\u2019s Lorcan Lynch and referee Andrew Smith.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8d5b44d7-b119-437a-be2d-03aac6c45b7f.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)\">Wexford joint-captains Brian Roban and Cathal Kehoe with Down\u2019s Lorcan Lynch and referee Andrew Smith.<\/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)\">Wexford\u2019s All-Ireland Under-20 football \u2018B\u2019 championship semi-final clash with Down in Abbotstown on Wednesday replicated their experience in Leinster, as they went toe-to-toe with strong opposition before finishing on the wrong side of the scoreline by a relatively low margin.<\/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)\">However, they did it playing the game with a refreshing abandon and eagerness to attack, mirroring those earlier matches and outlining why this campaign has been such a success on the whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Down 0-22 Wexford 1-15 Wexford joint-captains Brian Roban and Cathal Kehoe with Down\u2019s Lorcan Lynch and referee Andrew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[184117,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-455429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-alan-aherne","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455429","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=455429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}