{"id":585043,"date":"2026-08-06T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:52:10","slug":"corks-joe-miskella-named-minor-footballer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585043\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s Joe Miskella named minor footballer of the year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballincollig and Cork footballer Joe Miskella has been named the 2026 Electric Ireland minor footballer of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Behind by 0-7 to 1-13 with 39 minutes on the clock, Cork fought back, scoring an unanswered 1-5 with thanks in no small way to an Eoghan Ahern goal, but Miskella&#8217;s impact was colossal in resurrecting the Rebel challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ricken&#8217;s Cork side dominate the team of the year with seven inclusions, closely followed by fellow finalists Tyrone with six. The remaining two spots on this year\u2019s squad go to semi-finalists Kildare.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5183344_2_articleinlinemobile_EOHColligLine06.jpg\" alt=\"Ballincollig's Joe Miskella leaves Carrigaline's David Scannell Murphy on the ground during the Cork ETB Rebel \u00d3g P1 MFC at Carrigaline in July. Pic: Eddie O'Hare\" title=\"Ballincollig's Joe Miskella leaves Carrigaline's David Scannell Murphy on the ground during the Cork ETB Rebel \u00d3g P1 MFC at Carrigaline in July. Pic: Eddie O'Hare\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Ballincollig&#8217;s Joe Miskella leaves Carrigaline&#8217;s David Scannell Murphy on the ground during the Cork ETB Rebel \u00d3g P1 MFC at Carrigaline in July. Pic: Eddie O&#8217;Hare<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Uachtar\u00e1n CLG, Jarlath Burns, said: \u201cMy sincere congratulations to all the young men named in the 2026 Electric Ireland minor football team of the Year. It has been a true pleasure watching these athletes represent their counties with such pride, skill, and determination this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;A special word of praise goes to Cork\u2019s Joe Miskella on being named Electric Ireland minor star football player of the year, his outstanding leadership and talent were vital to his county&#8217;s All-Ireland success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Electric Ireland football minor star team of the year: Rory Twohig (Cork and Kilmeen); Aaron O\u2019Sullivan (Cork and Glanmire), James Maguire (Tyrone and Killyclogher St. Mary\u2019s \/ Cappagh), Liam Mescal (Kildare and Eadestown); Aodh\u00e1n Corry (Tyrone and Trillick St Macartan\u2019s), Tom\u00e1s Gallen (Tyrone and Fintona Pearses), \u00c9anna Lynch (Cork and Ballincollig); Kieran O\u2019Shea (Cork and Urhan), Charlie Meenan (Tyrone and Killyclogher St. Mary\u2019s \/ Cappagh); Eoghan Ahern (Cork and Carrigaline), Matthew F Daly (Tyrone and Eglish St. Patrick\u2019s), Joe Miskella (Cork and Ballincollig); Tom Whooley (Cork and Clonakilty), Greg Kelly (Kildare and Castledermot), Vincent Gormley (Tyrone and An Charraig Mh\u00f3r Naomh Colmcille).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5183626_1_articleinlinemobile_HPCXujqXMAAFTMk.jpeg\" alt=\"TEENAGE STARLETS: The Electric Ireland minor football team of the year for 2026.\" title=\"TEENAGE STARLETS: The Electric Ireland minor football team of the year for 2026.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>TEENAGE STARLETS: The Electric Ireland minor football team of the year for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballincollig and Cork footballer Joe Miskella has been named the 2026 Electric Ireland minor footballer of the year.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2110,1964,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-585043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-sport","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585043","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=585043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}