{"id":465441,"date":"2026-05-25T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465441\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:02:29","slug":"love-island-hopeful-steps-away-from-galway-football-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465441\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island hopeful steps away from Galway football panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Love Island hopeful steps away from Galway football panel<br \/>\n                May 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f5f9e7e8-6ddf-490c-8c1a-17c981b2f336.jpg\"\/><br \/>Sean Fitzgerald of Galway in action against Armagh at Kingspan Breffni \u00a9INPHO\/James Lawlor<\/p>\n<p>Sean Fitzgerald has left the Galway senior football panel after being shortlisted for Love Island.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 is reporting that the 25-year-old has travelled to Majorca where he is in contention to make an appearance on the hit ITV dating show, which will be broadcast from June 1. Fitzgerald has a large following on TikTok and Instagram, and lined out at full back in Galway\u2019s Connacht SFC semi-final win over Leitrim last month.<\/p>\n<p>However, he wasn\u2019t included in the panel for the Connacht SFC final defeat to Roscommon or the standby squad. The Bearna clubman won an All-Ireland U20FC medal in 2020 before graduating to the Galway senior football panel two years later.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribesmen are back in action this Saturday evening when they face Kildare in Round 1 of the All-Ireland SFC at Pearse Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-lang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Most Read Stories<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love Island hopeful steps away from Galway football panel May 20, 2026 Sean Fitzgerald of Galway in action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-465441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465441","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=465441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}