{"id":52853,"date":"2025-09-30T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/52853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:02:11","slug":"mayo-gaa-stars-spotted-at-nfl-ireland-event-in-croke-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/52853\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo GAA stars spotted at NFL Ireland event in Croke Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Football fever took over Croke Park on Sunday afternoon as the Pittsburgh Steelers held on to overcome the Minnesota Vikings in front of a packed crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of famous faces from both the Irish and global spectrum were spotted in GAA HQ, including some famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mayo<\/a> faces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/news\/gaa\/1906229\/four-mayo-club-championship-semi-finals-selected-for-live-broadcast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/READ_MORE_button_-_2025-09-29T171742.669-1759223291001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"243\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aidan O&#8217;Shea and Cillian O&#8217;Connor know Croke Park like the back of their hand, but on Sunday, they were taking in the views from the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Breaffy man O&#8217;Shea was mixing it with some important figures on the day, including the US Ambassador to Ireland, Edward Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>The talented forward has some previous history with the oval ball in his hands, having taken part in the AIB series &#8216;The Toughest Trade&#8217; back in 2016. College wide receiver Roberto Wallace made his way to Breaffy to play Parke-KC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/section\/2900\/gaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GAA-1759223316279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Football fever took over Croke Park on Sunday afternoon as the Pittsburgh Steelers held on to overcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[764,615,61,60,4185,43,19147,35747],"class_list":["post-52853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-croke-park","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburg-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52853","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=52853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}