Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald has stepped away from the Galway football panel as he looks to win a place on the reality TV programme Love Island.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old, who joined the senior ranks in 2022 and established himself in the Tribes’ full-back line in recent seasons, played the full 70 minutes against Leitrim in the Connacht SFC semi-final last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Bearna clubman was not part of the matchday panel for the provincial final defeat to Roscommon<\/a>, with the Irish Examiner reporting that he has been shortlisted to be a contestant on the British dating programme<\/a>, which is set in Majorca and starts on ITV on 1 June.<\/p>\n The primary school teacher has a growing social media presence (nearly 95,000 followers on TikTok), with Fitzgerald publishing a video expressing his interest in appearing on the show.<\/p>\n P\u00e1draic Joyce’s side resume their championship campaign on Saturday (7.30pm) against Kildare in Round 1 of the All-Ireland Football Championship at Pearse Stadium, a game that will be broadcast live on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n Watch Galway v Kildare in the All-Ireland Football Championship first round on Saturday from 7.20pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app and listen to Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald has stepped away from the Galway football panel as he looks to win a place on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-456911","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\/456911","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=456911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}