{"id":567657,"date":"2026-07-25T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567657\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:49:11","slug":"all-ireland-sfc-final-championship-top-scorer-race-goes-down-to-the-wire-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567657\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC final: Championship top scorer race goes down to the wire \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s All-Ireland final<\/a> has a subplot for fans to follow as two players vie for the title of this championship season\u2019s top scorer.<\/p>\n

Kerry\u2019s David Clifford<\/a> and Ryan O\u2019Donoghue of Mayo<\/a> have been in fine form all year, with the two racing ahead in the scoring charts.<\/p>\n

The Kingdom<\/a> take on the Westerners at Croke Park<\/a> for the Sam Maguire on Sunday, July 26.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>\"From<\/a>\"MayoMayo’s Ryan O’Donoghue could leapfrog David Clifford with a big scoring performance at Croke Park on Sunday. PICTURE: INPHO <\/p>\n

Clifford leads the way currently with 6-44, adding up to 62 points, with Ryan O\u2019Donoghue close behind on 2-51 (57 points).<\/p>\n

These two players make up for the last two top scorers in the Championship<\/a>; Clifford topped the charts last year, registering 8\u201362 (86 points), and O\u2019Donoghue secured top spot in 2024 with 3\u201348 (57 points).<\/p>\n

Cork<\/a> forward Stephen Sherlock is in third place with 0-43, followed by Dublin<\/a> pair Cormac Costello (0-41) and Con O\u2019Callaghan (4-27).<\/p>\n

The highest-scoring Ulster<\/a> player is Armagh\u2019s<\/a> Conor Turbitt, who put up 3-26 (35).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s All-Ireland final has a subplot for fans to follow as two players vie for the title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4365,6937,42189,121459,14609,61,60,4185,43],"class_list":["post-567657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaelic-football","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-all-ireland-football-championship","tag-all-ireland-final","tag-david-clifford","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567657","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=567657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}