{"id":500124,"date":"2026-06-15T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500124\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:03:12","slug":"keegan-throws-roscommon-dig-as-pundits-make-all-ireland-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500124\/","title":{"rendered":"Keegan Throws Roscommon Dig As Pundits Make All-Ireland Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a big weekend of shocks in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, it looks less clear than ever who are the favourites to lift the Sam Maguire later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Armagh suffered a surprise defeat at the hands of Louth on Sunday, with a l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/louth-armagh-sean-cavanagh-hooter-657277\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ast gasp goal giving the Wee County the victory in Inniskeen<\/a>. With Donegal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/donegal-cork-all-ireland-657231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having also come up short against Cork<\/a> on Saturday, it was not a good weekend for many of the All-Ireland favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Then you have Roscommon. Tipped by some as a potential dark horse in this season&#8217;s championship, they would exit the competition after successive losses against Tyrone and Monaghan.<\/p>\n<p>That is something that led to a cheeky dig from one of their old rivals on the national broadcaster this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Keegan Throws Cheeky Roscommon Dig<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lee Keegan was on punditry duties on RT\u00c9 on Sunday, appearing alongside Brian Fenton and Sean Cavanagh.<\/p>\n<p>The trio would witness a dramatic win for Tyrone over Mayo in Omagh, having also covered Louth&#8217;s victory over Armagh earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of the weekend&#8217;s results, the pundits were asked by presenter Joanne Cantwell to predict the All-Ireland winner this season. Keegan used it as an opportunity to throw a dig at Mayo&#8217;s neighbours on the back of their championship exit.<\/p>\n<p>Cantwell: Sean, you think Kerry are going to win the All-Ireland?<\/p>\n<p>Cavanagh: They&#8217;re stronger than the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Cantwell: Who is going to win the All-Ireland Brian?<\/p>\n<p>Fenton: Before today I was going to say Armagh. I&#8217;m going to stick with Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>Cantwell: Lee?<\/p>\n<p>Keegan: Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>Cantwell: You were going to say Galway weren&#8217;t you? You couldn&#8217;t bring yourself to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Keegan: I could say Roscommon!<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Keegan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/lee-keegan-rte-roscommon-mayo-error-649039\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has a fractious relationship with Roscommon<\/a> and its supporters, with quite a few examples of that dynamic in action down through the years.<\/p>\n<p>As for the other predictions, it seems that many onlookers have retained their faith in Armagh despite their unexpected stumble this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a big weekend of shocks in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, it looks less clear than ever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,21727,112],"class_list":["post-500124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-roscommon","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500124","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=500124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}