{"id":486992,"date":"2026-06-07T02:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486992\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:55:20","slug":"cork-legend-has-cheeky-quip-on-galway-stars-love-island-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486992\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork legend has cheeky quip on Galway stars Love Island exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary hurler, Patrick Horgan, has given his thoughts on Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald&#8217;s Love Island venture.<\/p>\n<p>While &#8220;Hoggie&#8221; is no longer part of the senior hurling set-up at Cork, the forward has remained at the centre of the GAA discourse with his transition into punditry.<\/p>\n<p>The Glen Rovers man has taken it all in his stride with regular appearances now on RTE&#8217;s live match coverage and The Sunday Game. <\/p>\n<p>Horgan has made the transition look natural for someone who was only playing in an All-Ireland final months prior to his inclusion in media.<\/p>\n<p>This has given him quite an advantage with his modern insight of the game leading to strong analysis.<\/p>\n<p>On his new role, Horgan said: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have watched games before, I wouldn&#8217;t have watched hurling. Now I&#8217;m looking forward to watching it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saturday I&#8217;m looking forward to the Leinster final and Sunday obviously I&#8217;ll be glued to Cork and Limerick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald Love Island<\/p>\n<p>Galway footballer, Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald, recently stepped away from the inter-county team to pursue a unique Love Island opportunity last month.<\/p>\n<p>And the 23-year-old footballer has already made a huge impression on the show, pairing up with fellow islander Lola during the first episode.<\/p>\n<p>Although having to deal with a wide variety of Irish stereotypes and impressions, Fitzgerald has seemingly adapted to the islands demands.<\/p>\n<p>Like the majority of the GAA community, Horgan has tuned in to see how &#8220;Fitzy&#8221; gets on.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I&#8217;m watching it there. He was lucky last night he wasn&#8217;t back playing championship next week! There was a bit of a surprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He got an opportunity to go and he did the right thing obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary hurler, Patrick Horgan, has given his thoughts on Se\u00e1n Fitzgerald&#8217;s Love Island venture. While &#8220;Hoggie&#8221; is no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-486992","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\/486992","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=486992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}