{"id":463436,"date":"2026-05-23T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463436\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:35:10","slug":"kerry-v-donegal-live-updates-from-killarney-as-last-years-all-ireland-finalists-meet-for-the-third-time-this-season-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463436\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry v Donegal Live: Updates from Killarney as last year\u2019s All-Ireland finalists meet for the third time this season \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kerry <\/a>and Donegal<\/a> meet in the most anticipated match-up of the first round of the All-Ireland Football Championship<\/a> at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney.<\/p>\n

Donegal travel to the heartland of the All-Ireland champion, having bested Jack O\u2019Connor\u2019s side in the National Football League<\/a> final at Croke Park<\/a> earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

However, fans will not be allowed to forget last summer\u2019s visit to the same venue, when the Kingdom reigned supreme in a convincing All-Ireland final win against Jim McGuinness<\/a> charges.<\/p>\n

The manner of that league final win led some to believe they were fallible in Munster and that Cork were the coming force. <\/p>\n

\"Celtic<\/a>\"Kerry<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the Kingdom dispatched the Rebels in efficient fashion in the final for a sixth straight provincial title, lifting the inaugural P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9 Cup in the process.<\/p>\n

In Ulster, Donegal\u2019s fortunes were quite different as they suffered a shock defeat to Down.<\/p>\n

They could not have been handed a tougher draw in the opening round of the All-Ireland Championship, especially with Michael Langan a doubt due to an injury suffered in the build-up to the Down match. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry and Donegal meet in the most anticipated match-up of the first round of the All-Ireland Football Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4365,6937,42189,6342,61,60,96071,43],"class_list":["post-463436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaelic-football","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-all-ireland-football-championship","tag-donegal-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-live-broadcast","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463436","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=463436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}