{"id":571228,"date":"2026-07-28T00:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:13:28","slug":"mayo-team-and-wags-celebrate-after-historical-all-ireland-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571228\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo team and wags celebrate after historical All-Ireland win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just hours after the Mayo team lifted the Sam Maguire Cup after a long 75-year wait, the women behind the winning team pulled out all the stops for a night of celebrations.<\/p>\n

According to RT\u00c9, as many as 1.1M people watched Mayo finally take the All-Ireland title, while Croke Park hosted a further 82,300 fans in the stands, showcasing a sea of green and red across Hogan, Cusack and Davin.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, the team enjoyed well-deserved celebrations with their other halves at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Dublin 8 before they departed Heuston Station and headed home to Castlebar for a heroes’ welcome at MacHale Park.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Jessie Brown\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Rob Hennelly’s wife, Orla Lorenza, wowed in a white fully embellished sparkling mini dress, with a high neckline and long sleeves. She paired her winning look with oversized white floral statement earrings.<\/p>\n

Her Mayo goalkeeper superstar husband looked dapper as he swapped his GAA shorts for a suit and tie Rob Hennelly<\/p>\n

Captioning her pictures on social media, she joked: ‘The only pic we took last night.’<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Orla Lorenza\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The ItsBeautyCheats brand owner showed off her look in a full length mirror before the couple’s night of celebrations.<\/p>\n

Orla has been with the GAA star for seven years after meeting while they were both studying communications at DCU.<\/p>\n

Rob proposed to Orla at the end of December 2020 and the couple tied the knot in a winter wedding back in 2022, saying their ‘I Dos’ at the Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow. Among the guests included Mayo team-mate Aidan O’Shea.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Orla Lorenza\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Mayo<\/a> were cheered on at\u00a0Croke Park\u00a0on Sunday by Aidan’s wife Kristin McKenzie Vass and his two children. Sharing a number of photos on Instagram, the Breaffy man’s partner simply wrote: ‘This feels good.’<\/p>\n

The couple later donned their glad rags for a night out in Dublin with Kristin looking stunning in a crochet bead and sequin embellishment maxi dress with a matching beaded pouch bag.<\/p>\n

Her husband looked suitably smart as he towered over his wife for a picture ahead of their celebrations.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Kristin McKenzie Vass\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Roberta Harrington uploaded a smiling picture taken later in the night with Kristin as the pair appear to also be celebrating their birthday together as well as the historic win.<\/p>\n

The Sligo-based yoga teacher is engaged to Fergal Boland since 2024. Roberta captioned a picture of her with Fergal on the pitch after the win, saying: ‘Mayo are back’.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Roberta Harrington\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mayo’s breakout star Kobe McDonald\u00a0was all smiles as he celebrated lifting the Sam Maguire cup with girlfriend Leah Maheady.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0GAA\u00a0star, who sat his Leaving Cert earlier this year, has signed a professional deal with St Kilda in Australia to compete in the Australian Football League.<\/p>\n

But speaking on Sunday, Kobe <\/a>said he wasn’t even thinking about his move Down Under just yet.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Roberta Harrington\/Instagram<\/p>\n

‘Look, to be honest, I\u2019m not thinking about Australia right now. I\u2019m just going to soak every bit of this in.<\/p>\n

‘This is where I come from and to give these people of Mayo something to cheer about is special,’ he told RT\u00c9 Sport.<\/p>\n

\"\"26 July 2026; Kobe McDonald of Mayo celebrates with his girlfriend Leah Maheady after the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship final match between Kerry and Mayo at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

\"\"26 July 2026; Kobe McDonald of Mayo with partner Leah Maheady, left, and Jessie Brown, fianc\u00e9 of Mayo player Jordan Flynn after the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship final match between Kerry and Mayo at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just hours after the Mayo team lifted the Sam Maguire Cup after a long 75-year wait, the women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-571228","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\/571228","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=571228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}