{"id":561817,"date":"2026-07-22T03:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:10:24","slug":"ian-maguire-a-doubt-for-st-finbarrs-championship-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561817\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Maguire a doubt for St Finbarr&#8217;s championship opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">St Finbarr\u2019s talisman Ian Maguire is a doubt for his side\u2019s McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC opener against Carrigaline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The game takes place on Friday in Ballinhassig with throw-in at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Barrs are the holders after winning the county last year for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s understood that a foot problem is bothering Maguire and could sideline him for a few weeks. If that proves to be the case, it would be a blow for the Togher outfit in their pursuit of Andy Scannell glory once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While the reigning county champions boast an incredibly deep squad with seasoned leaders like Alan O\u2019Connor and lethal forward Steven Sherlock, replacing an elite inter-county midfielder is far from ideal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maguire had a solid season in the middle of the park for the Cork footballers this year, a campaign in which he also captained the side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After Friday, St Finbarr\u2019s have a city derby against Douglas, followed by a clash with Mallow in the final group game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Finbarr\u2019s talisman Ian Maguire is a doubt for his side\u2019s McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC opener against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-561817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561817","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=561817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}