{"id":4867,"date":"2025-09-07T03:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/4867\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:03:13","slug":"gaa-approves-a-proposal-to-move-all-ireland-finals-to-a-week-later-in-the-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/4867\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA approves a proposal to move All-Ireland finals to a week later in the calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry brothers Paudie Clifford, left, and David Clifford, with his son Ogie, lift the Sam Maguire cup last month Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/110c3fac-a105-4e99-9b96-bc7c633a9339.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)\">Kerry brothers Paudie Clifford, left, and David Clifford, with his son Ogie, lift the Sam Maguire cup last month Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">GAA Central Council has approved a proposal to move the All-Ireland football final into August and the hurling final to the last Sunday in July.<\/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)\">The move would require the removal of pre-season competitions like the O\u2019Byrne Cup and McKenna Cup, which were temporarily suspended this year to create more breathing space in the playing calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry brothers Paudie Clifford, left, and David Clifford, with his son Ogie, lift the Sam Maguire cup last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-4867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}