{"id":565717,"date":"2026-07-24T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:49:08","slug":"geaney-on-bench-as-kerry-stay-the-same-for-all-ireland-sfc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565717\/","title":{"rendered":"Geaney on bench as Kerry stay the same for All-Ireland SFC final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Geaney on bench as Kerry stay the same for All-Ireland SFC final<br \/>\n                July 24, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2d90a29d-cd82-470d-ab14-ecedb1c88f95.jpg\"\/><br \/>Kerry manager Jack O&#8217;Connor \u00a9INPHO\/James Lawlor<\/p>\n<p>Kerry boss Jack O\u2019Connor has named an unchanged side for Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland senior football championship final against Mayo at Croke Park (3.30pm).<\/p>\n<p>Team captain Paul Geaney returns from the injury which ruled him out in the semi-final win over Dublin to be named among the substitutes. Should the Dingle clubman be introduced, it would mark his eighth All-Ireland final appearance for the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Within the starting line-up for the All-Ireland champions, things remain the same from the victory against the Dubs with positional changes seeing Paudie Clifford switched from centre half-forward to right corner-forward.<\/p>\n<p>Marksman Sean O\u2019Shea start on \u2018the 40\u2019 while David Clifford will lead the Kerry attack from full-forward.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in their fourth All-Ireland final in five years, Sunday afternoon will see O\u2019Connor\u2019s side bid for their county\u2019s 40th Sam Maguire Cup at headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-lang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Most Read Stories<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geaney on bench as Kerry stay the same for All-Ireland SFC final July 24, 2026 Kerry manager Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-565717","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\/565717","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=565717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}