{"id":72531,"date":"2025-10-10T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72531\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:17:08","slug":"its-my-whole-life-being-involved-in-the-club-cork-icon-jimmy-barry-murphy-still-chasing-success-in-his-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72531\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s my whole life being involved in the club\u2019 \u2013 Cork icon Jimmy Barry-Murphy still chasing success in his 70s"},"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\">\nRebel dual star still fighting the good fight on two fronts with St Finbarr\u2019s\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Six-foot-two, eyes of blue, Jimmy Barry we love you,'\u00a0was the popular Rebel chant from the terraces during Jimmy Barry-Murphy's playing days\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025530.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)\">&#8216;Six-foot-two, eyes of blue, Jimmy Barry we love you,&#8217;\u00a0was the popular Rebel chant from the terraces during Jimmy Barry-Murphy&#8217;s playing days<\/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)\">Few are loved by their own quite like Jimmy Barry-Murphy and the Cork icon continues to patrol the sidelines with his native St Finbarr&#8217;s as a GAA obsession continues into his 70s.<\/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)\">As a player, \u2018JBM\u2019 was adored. There was an aura about him. Everything he did was done with such grace and poise that he stood out from the crowd on the pitch, while playing down his exploits off it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebel dual star still fighting the good fight on two fronts with St Finbarr\u2019s &#8216;Six-foot-two, eyes of blue,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,23501,112],"class_list":["post-72531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-verney","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72531","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=72531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}