{"id":80552,"date":"2025-10-14T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80552\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:38:09","slug":"martin-breheny-gap-is-ever-widening-as-even-fewer-counties-win-all-ireland-and-league-titles-under-changed-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80552\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: Gap is ever widening as even fewer counties win All-Ireland and league titles under changed formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry players and officials celebrate with the Sam Maguire cup after victory over Donegal in the\u00a0All-Ireland SFC final at Croke Park in July. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0d39fea2-c4c8-4954-91cb-d03ad99571ca.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)\">Kerry players and officials celebrate with the Sam Maguire cup after victory over Donegal in the\u00a0All-Ireland SFC final at Croke Park in July. Photo: 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)\">The aim was threefold: to guarantee counties a minimum of two championship outings, to generate added interest in the All-Ireland series by almost doubling the number of games and to increase the chances of a wider title spread.<\/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)\">They were the main selling points of the radical plan for the football championship that was enthusiastically approved by Special Congress 25 years ago this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry players and officials celebrate with the Sam Maguire cup after victory over Donegal in the\u00a0All-Ireland SFC final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,22188,112],"class_list":["post-80552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-martin-breheny","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80552","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=80552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}