{"id":46313,"date":"2025-09-27T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:38:10","slug":"the-mickey-ned-osullivan-interview-kerry-great-on-loss-his-love-for-football-and-dublin-friendships-that-endure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46313\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mickey Ned O\u2019Sullivan interview \u2013 Kerry great on loss, his love for football and Dublin friendships that endure"},"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\">Still going strong at 73, former Kingdom player, captain and manager reflects on a remarkable sporting career\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mickey Ned O'Sullivan at home, outside Kenmare, holding his 1975 All-Ireland medal and the football from that final which was signed by Kerry and Dublin players. Photo: Don MacMonagle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b30e9d39-715c-496c-aec5-1f2d14c6261e.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)\">Mickey Ned O&#8217;Sullivan at home, outside Kenmare, holding his 1975 All-Ireland medal and the football from that final which was signed by Kerry and Dublin players. Photo: Don MacMonagle<\/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)\">In a picture-postcard setting overlooking Kenmare Bay, Mickey Ned O\u2019Sullivan ponders the transience of it all \u2013 but also how bonds endure.<\/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)\">\u201cI would never look at time moving, but I can\u2019t believe 50 years went this fast,\u201d the 73-year-old admits. \u201cBut the beauty of it is, we\u2019re still friends, the groups we\u2019ve played with. And there\u2019s a great respect. We still ring each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still going strong at 73, former Kingdom player, captain and manager reflects on a remarkable sporting career Mickey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,7070,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-46313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-frank-roche","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46313","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=46313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}