{"id":549687,"date":"2026-07-14T19:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549687\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:05:13","slug":"irish-mammy-has-genius-method-for-predicting-the-all-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549687\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish mammy has genius method for predicting the All-Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The All-Ireland finals are both set for the next two Sundays, with the 2026 Liam MacCarthy Cup and Sam Maguire Cup winners to be decided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Sunday, July 19, Galway face off against Limerick in the All-Ireland Hurling final as the Tribesmen look to win their first crown since 2017, and Limerick look for their first since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then,\u00a0the following Sunday, July 26, Mayo will look to finally end their 75-year curse as they try to dismantle David Clifford and reigning All-Ireland Champions Kerry at Croke Park.<\/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\"  \/>GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Semi-Final, Croke Park, Dublin 12\/7\/2026<br \/>Dublin vs Kerry<br \/>David Clifford celebrates a score<br \/>Mandatory Credit \u00a9INPHO\/James Lawlor<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This season has seen many great storylines throughout, from Kobe McDonald breaking onto the scene as a teenager to Dublin\u2019s revival under Ger Brennan to Louth reaching their first All-Ireland semi-final since 1957.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been quite an unpredictable season, but one Irish mammy has found a novel way to predict the winners of the All-Ireland Football Championship thus far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RT\u00c9 Sport journalist Niall McCoy took to X to post that \u2018My mother always maintains that whoever breaks the parade first loses. Louth and Dublin both broke first at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3510796.jpg\" alt=\"All-Ireland\" class=\"wp-image-1792572\"  \/>The teams walk behind The Artane Band in the pre-match parade. Pic: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Her prediction method has a better success rate than most.\u2019 The pre-match parade is a long-standing tradition which dates back over a century, with the earliest recorded parade dating back to 1913.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teams can face punishment if they break from it too early, as the GAA look to keep the tradition alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while the sample size is small, it\u2019ll be interesting to see over the next two weekends whether the parade theory works.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My mother always maintains that whoever breaks the parade first loses. Louth and Dublin both broke first at the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Her prediction method has a better success rate than most.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Niall McCoy (@McCoyNiall) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/McCoyNiall\/status\/2076765069648515327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 13, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All-Ireland finals are both set for the next two Sundays, with the 2026 Liam MacCarthy Cup and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-549687","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\/549687","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=549687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}