{"id":575105,"date":"2026-07-30T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:50:09","slug":"the-job-stays-the-same-bailey-keeping-carlow-grounded-ahead-of-all-ireland-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575105\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Job Stays The Same&#8221; \u2013 Bailey Keeping Carlow Grounded Ahead Of All-Ireland Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlow captain Roisin Bailey insists the occasion of playing in Croke Park won\u2019t change her side\u2019s mindset as they prepare for Sunday\u2019s TG4 All-Ireland Junior Ladies Football Final.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Burke\u2019s unbeaten side face Antrim at 11.45am on Sunday, bidding to complete a remarkable season by lifting the All-Ireland title.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the final live on KCLR\u2019s Carlow frequency, with coverage brought to you by Dan Morrissey &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to KCLR Sport during the TG4 All-Ireland Finals media day at GAA headquarters, Bailey admitted Croke Park is an awe-inspiring venue, but says the team is focused solely on the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are looking out on that pitch and it\u2019s pretty big from up here. Hopefully my legs will carry me around it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw Kobe McDonald\u2019s interviews after Mayo\u2019s win on Sunday and he said every pitch is the same, there are two goals on either end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going to try and look at it that way, and all the girls the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bailey says that despite the historic setting, the team\u2019s objective remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a job to do on Sunday, no matter the location, the job stays the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlow head into the decider with an incredible record of 17 wins from 17 matches this season and will be hoping to cap off a historic campaign with All-Ireland glory at Croke Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlow captain Roisin Bailey insists the occasion of playing in Croke Park won\u2019t change her side\u2019s mindset as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-575105","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\/575105","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=575105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}