{"id":564919,"date":"2026-07-23T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564919\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:45:15","slug":"shane-ryan-and-paul-geaney-named-on-kerry-bench-for-all-ireland-final-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564919\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Ryan and Paul Geaney named on Kerry bench for All-Ireland final \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kerry<\/a> captain Paul Geaney has been named on the bench for Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland final against Mayo<\/a>, along with goalkeeper Shane Ryan.<\/p>\n

Geaney, who won the All-Ireland club title with Dingle in January, was named to start against Dublin, but dropped out of the 26 altogether.<\/p>\n

He was an unused substitute in last year\u2019s final against Donegal, but scored a crucial goal in the 2014 decider against Jim McGuinness\u2019 men.<\/p>\n

Kerry are unchanged in terms of the starting 15 that took to the field in their semi-final win, with Jack O\u2019Connor naming defenders Tom O\u2019Sullivan, Br\u00edan \u00d3 Beaglaoich and Evan Looney on the bench, with speculation previously that any of the three could start.<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/a>\"Inside<\/a><\/p>\n

Keith Evans is in line for a first appearance in an All-Ireland final from the bench, as are Armin Heinrich and U20 All-Ireland winner Tom\u00e1s Kennedy, who were unused subs in 2025.<\/p>\n

\"SatSat 30 May 2026
\nTom\u00e1s Kennedy of Kerry in action against Adrian McGurren of Tyrone in the All Ireland U20 final at Croke Park. PICTURE: OLIVER MCVEIGH <\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

Kerry side to face Mayo in the All-Ireland SFC final<\/p>\n

Kerry: Shane Murphy; Paul Murphy, Jason Foley, Dylan Casey; Graham O\u2019Sullivan, Mike Breen, Gavin White; Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien, Mark O\u2019Shea; Joe O\u2019Connor, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Shea, Diarmuid O\u2019Connor; David Clifford, Paudie Clifford, Dylan Geaney. <\/p>\n

Subs: Shane Ryan, Evan Looney, Tom\u00e1s Kennedy, Keith Evans, Paul Geaney, Armin Heinrich, Br\u00edan \u00d3 Beaglaoich, Tadhg Morley, Miche\u00e1l Burns, Tom O\u2019Sullivan, Killian Spillane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry captain Paul Geaney has been named on the bench for Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland final against Mayo, along with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6937,42189,121459,61,60,4185,43],"class_list":["post-564919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-all-ireland-football-championship","tag-all-ireland-final","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564919","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=564919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}