{"id":546842,"date":"2026-07-13T04:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546842\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T04:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:32:38","slug":"kerry-to-take-on-mayo-in-all-ireland-football-final-following-dublin-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546842\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry to take on Mayo in All Ireland Football final following Dublin win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerry have secured their place in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final following a nail-biting clash with Dublin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victory for the Munster men came not long after Mayo got the win over Louth on Saturday evening on a score of 3-23 (32 points) to 0-15 (15 points).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, reigning champions Kerry took on the Dubs, with Kerry\u2019s David Clifford securing the first goal of the match following a saved penalty, which gave way to a follow up opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dublinkerry.jpg\" alt=\"football\" class=\"wp-image-1791690\"  \/>Kerry have secured their place in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final following a nail-biting clash with Dublin on Saturday. Pic: \u00a9INPHO\/James Crombie<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this, both sides were level heading to the halftime break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dublin won early possession, but failed to make on that occasion with one of several wides made throughout the game for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Leinster team did manage to pull away from the reigning champions, with scores from Paddy Smalls, Brian Howard and Colm Basquel, leaving Kerry fans nervous.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/davidclifford.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1791689\"  \/>David. Clifford. Pic: INPHO\/James Lawlor<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than ten minutes into the second half, Kerry managed to secure another goal, quickly followed by a two-pointer from Paudie Clifford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is closely followed by a two-pointer from his brother David, with Kerry seeming to pull away and assert a slight dominance on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heading towards the hour mark, both Niall Scully and Ross McGarry for Dublin had goal chances, with the furore eventually resulting in a free out for Kerry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dublin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1791688\"  \/>Pic: \u00a9INPHO\/James Crombie<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the full-time whistle blew, Kerry were victorious on a score of 2-18 (24 points) and 0-20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result means Kerry will take on Mayo in two weeks\u2019 time in a rematch of the 2006 football final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be the ninth All Ireland final for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extra.ie\/tag\/kerry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry<\/a> manager Jack O\u2019Connor who after the match told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.rte.ie\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RT\u00c9<\/a> the \u2018wind was significant\u2019 for the Kerry victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noting that the Dublin side could\u2019ve beaten many teams on Sunday, O\u2019Connor confirmed there was a \u2018bit of luck\u2019 and plenty of \u2018experience\u2019 that aided Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry have secured their place in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final following a nail-biting clash with Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-546842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546842","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=546842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}