{"id":661928,"date":"2026-10-22T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661928\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:32:09","slug":"down-two-time-all-ireland-winner-kevin-oneill-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661928\/","title":{"rendered":"Down two-time All-Ireland winner Kevin O&#8217;Neill dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin O&#8217;Neill, a member of the Down team that brought the Sam Maguire across the border for the first time, has died.<\/p>\n<p>The Newry native was a defender on those trailblazing sides of 1960 and 1961, when Kerry and then Offaly were defeated in the All-Ireland finals.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill called time on his inter-county career after winning a second Celtic Cross but continued to play for his club Newry Mitchels, winning four Down SFC titles.<\/p>\n<p>His younger brother Se\u00e1n, a decorated forward during the 1960s, was also part of the Down team that in many ways changed the face of Gaelic football such was the vibrancy of their play.<\/p>\n<p>Se\u00e1n and 1960 captain Kevin Mussen are now the only surviving members of those All-Ireland winning sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin O&#8217;Neill, a member of the Down team that brought the Sam Maguire across the border for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-661928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661928","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=661928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}