{"id":456965,"date":"2026-05-19T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456965\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:16:08","slug":"westmeaths-all-ireland-opener-against-cavan-sells-out-in-minutes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456965\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmeath\u2019s All-Ireland opener against Cavan sells out in minutes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tickets for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westmeath-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westmeath-gaa\/\">Westmeath<\/a>\u2019s All-Ireland Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-championship\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-championship\/\">Football Championship<\/a> clash against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cavan-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cavan-gaa\/\">Cavan<\/a> at Cusack Park sold out within minutes on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Lake County footballers made history on Sunday by beating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-gaa\/\">Dublin<\/a> to claim the Delaney Cup for just the second time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mark McHugh\u2019s side host Cavan in the first round of the All-Ireland series on Saturday, May 30th and all tickets for the fixture were snapped up in under 30 minutes. Cusack Park in Mullingar has a capacity of almost 11,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">County board officials said it is the first time the venue has sold out since an O\u2019Byrne Cup final between P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9\u2019s Westmeath and Se\u00e1n Boylan\u2019s Meath in January 2004 which brought a crowd of 14,610. The capacity of the ground was subsequently reduced when more stringent health and safety regulations were introduced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cavan are currently managed by Dermot McCabe, who was in charge of Westmeath for the 2025 season. McHugh was a selector under McCabe before stepping up to the managerial position this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets for Westmeath\u2019s All-Ireland Senior Football Championship clash against Cavan at Cusack Park sold out within minutes on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50282,110979,61,60,43,74467],"class_list":["post-456965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cavan-gaa","tag-football-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-westmeath-gaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456965","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=456965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}