{"id":60759,"date":"2025-10-04T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60759\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:20:09","slug":"we-havent-been-tough-enough-away-from-home-stephen-kenny-rues-missed-opportunity-as-saints-count-cost-of-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60759\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We haven\u2019t been tough enough away from home\u2019 \u2013 Stephen Kenny rues missed opportunity as Saints count cost of Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Patrick's Athletic manager Stephen Kenny reacts during the FAI Cup semi-final defeat to Cork City at Turner\u2019s Cross in Cork. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3252206.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny reacts during the FAI Cup semi-final defeat to Cork City at Turner\u2019s Cross in Cork. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stephen Kenny has dismissed suggestions that over-confidence from his own players was the reason behind a disappointing FAI Cup exit at the hands of a rampant Cork City, with the Saints now in a real dogfight to secure European football for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pat\u2019s were clear favourites to win the semi-final tie against Cork, even though City\u2019s home form had been impressive while Kenny admitted that Pat\u2019s have just not been good enough on the road this season, but an early goal from Seani Maguire had Cork in front and they sealed the win with a second-half brace from Evan McLaughlin, to earn Cork a passage to the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny reacts during the FAI Cup semi-final defeat to Cork City at Turner\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,14641,61,60,43,16489,38384],"class_list":["post-60759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-cork-city","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","tag-stephen-kenny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60759","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=60759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}