{"id":671582,"date":"2026-11-01T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671582\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:36:13","slug":"molloy-open-to-antrim-football-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671582\/","title":{"rendered":"Molloy open to Antrim football switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bb011c7c-c124-48a6-b923-907687292789.jpg\" alt=\"Molloy open to Antrim football switch\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Antrim&#8217;s Keelan Molloy celebrates scoring the equalising point against Wexford \u00a9INPHO\/Tommy Dickson<\/p>\n<p>Dunloy star Keelan Molloy has not ruled out joining Mark Doran\u2019s Antrim senior football squad after holding several conversations with the county manager about a possible change of code.<\/p>\n<p>Molloy and fellow clubman Seaan Elliott previously opted to concentrate on hurling, but the attacker is open to giving football a go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Doran) has rang a few times now. He\u2019s definitely trying! He seems like a nice fellow. We had some very good conversations, so he\u2019s definitely trying, but no decisions have been made yet,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/sport\/gaa\/hurling\/i-wouldnt-mind-having-go-34838239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Molloy told BelfastLive.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind having a go at it but it probably depends on how the club season ends here and how I feel. I\u2019m definitely not shutting it down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can speak for myself anyway. I don&#8217;t know about Seaan (Elliott), but he has talked to us, but I don\u2019t know yet, we will see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere probably is (a desire to try football) I\u2019m definitely not shutting it down straight away. I wouldn\u2019t mind having a go at it but it probably depends on how the club season ends here and how I feel. I\u2019m definitely not shutting it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Molloy is set to line-out for Dunloy in\u00a0tomorrow&#8217;s rescheduled Antrim senior hurling championship final against\u00a0Cushendall in Ballycastle\u00a0(2pm) as the Cuchulainns club\u00a0bid to claim their first county SHC title since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>                Share<\/p>\n<p>                     Share<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"btn hs-btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.hoganstand.com\/Article\/Index\/342292\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n                <a class=\"btn hs-btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.hoganstand.com\/Article\/Index\/342292\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X \/ Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antrim&#8217;s Keelan Molloy celebrates scoring the equalising point against Wexford \u00a9INPHO\/Tommy Dickson Dunloy star Keelan Molloy has not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-671582","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\/671582","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=671582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}