{"id":551228,"date":"2026-07-15T16:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:21:18","slug":"martin-mcnally-named-as-all-ireland-sfc-final-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551228\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin McNally named as All-Ireland SFC final referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting of Jack O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s Kerry and Andy Moran&#8217;s Mayo will be Monaghan native McNally&#8217;s first time refereeing a senior final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Corduff club man McNally refereed the All-Ireland U20 final in 2023, and the All-Ireland senior club final in 2026, along with the Leinster football finals in 2021 and 2025 and the Ulster football final in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In this year\u2019s football championship, McNally has refereed Louth v Wexford and Kildare v Westmeath in the Leinster championship, along with All-Ireland Series games including: Armagh v Derry, Dublin v Donegal and the All-Ireland quarter-final meeting of Cork and Mayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The final will be his 32nd senior intercounty championship game to referee since his first outing in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tyrone\u2019s Sean Hurson and Thomas Murphy, Galway, will run the line, while Hurson will also be the standby referee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His umpires on the day will be his fellow club men Ben Woods, Niall Reilly, Mark Gilsenan, and Anthony Marron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The sideline official is Tipperary&#8217;s Sean Lonergan. Killan Jones will act as the Hawkeye official, with Marty Duffy from Sligo the time official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The meeting of Jack O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s Kerry and Andy Moran&#8217;s Mayo will be Monaghan native McNally&#8217;s first time refereeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[217463,177329,6937,61,60,4185,43],"class_list":["post-551228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-all-ireland-football-final","tag-championship-2026","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551228","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=551228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}