{"id":88243,"date":"2025-10-18T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88243\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:03:09","slug":"how-all-ireland-winner-and-former-kerry-performance-coach-deal-with-pre-match-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88243\/","title":{"rendered":"How All-Ireland winner, and former Kerry performance coach, deal with pre-match nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The massive boots of big John Hayes sticking out from under the toilet door during his pre-match vomiting routine. Kieran Donaghy seeking out Sean Boylan the night before the 2016 semi-final for tea and brown bread to ease the mind. Paddy Burns scribbling away in his notebook as Armagh gear up for battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In sport, pre-match nerves are a near-universal sensation. Anxiety, after all, is a familiar companion in life. How each player handles it, though, is deeply personal. That approach is shaped by temperament, experience and the weight of expectation.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4633150_1_org_IE_logo_modals.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\tUnlimited access. Half the price.<\/p>\n<p>Annual \u20ac130\u20ac65<\/p>\n<p class=\"best-value\">Best value<\/p>\n<p>Monthly \u20ac12\u20ac6 \/ month<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Benefits image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4750392_1_org_Save_50_offer.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The massive boots of big John Hayes sticking out from under the toilet door during his pre-match vomiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30041,4365,1965,6937,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-88243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-clare-gaa","tag-gaelic-football","tag-hurling","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88243","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=88243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}