{"id":547463,"date":"2026-07-13T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:35:10","slug":"our-2026-gaelic-football-all-star-team-before-the-all-ireland-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547463\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 2026 Gaelic Football All-Star Team Before The All-Ireland Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1207\" data-end=\"1257\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">One debate seems to crop up every All-Star season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1316\">Should the team be selected before the All-Ireland final?<\/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 data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1614\">For many, the answer is yes. While the biggest day of the year should matter, one outstanding display in a final can often outweigh five or six months of consistently excellent football. Equally, one poor performance can unfairly knock a player out of contention despite a superb championship.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1616\" data-end=\"1761\">With Kerry and Mayo still to contest this year&#8217;s decider, we&#8217;ve picked our Football All-Star XV based solely on what has happened so far in 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1907\">That means performances across the league, provincials and the All-Ireland series have been considered, with consistency carrying more weight than one-off moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One debate seems to crop up every All-Star season. Should the team be selected before the All-Ireland final?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[232025,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-547463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-all-star-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547463","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=547463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}