{"id":62360,"date":"2025-10-05T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62360\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:46:11","slug":"david-matthews-interview-i-have-to-keep-myself-in-check-to-not-let-the-emotion-override-my-ability-to-deliver-the-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62360\/","title":{"rendered":"David Matthews interview: \u2018I have to keep myself in check, to not let the emotion override my ability to deliver the analysis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">RT\u00c9 co-commentator has found contentment after living with an itch that his athletics career couldn\u2019t scratch\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Matthews: \u2018On the back of the conversation, I just stepped back. I didn\u2019t go there anymore and I do regret that.\u2019 Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SN David Matthews 8.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)\">David Matthews: \u2018On the back of the conversation, I just stepped back. I didn\u2019t go there anymore and I do regret that.\u2019 Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">There are times during his work as a co-commentator at a major track and field championships when David Matthews bites his lip to control the emotion rising inside him. The two-time Olympian has witnessed the great moments in Irish athletics in recent years through his role with RT\u00c9.<\/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)\">He was trackside in Tokyo last month for Kate O\u2019Connor\u2019s stunning silver in the heptathlon and Cian McPhillips jaw-dropping 800m final fourth at the World Championships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 co-commentator has found contentment after living with an itch that his athletics career couldn\u2019t scratch David Matthews:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4173,112],"class_list":["post-62360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sinead-kissane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360","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=62360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}