{"id":531591,"date":"2026-07-08T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:43:23","slug":"oconnor-hands-mayo-fitness-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531591\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Connor hands Mayo fitness boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                O&#8217;Connor hands Mayo fitness boost<br \/>\n                July 06, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6469e80f-d4ff-4fdc-9069-7f1902b5622e.jpg\"\/><br \/>Mayo&#8217;s Cillian O&#8217;Connor. \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan Byrne.<\/p>\n<p>Cillian O\u2019Connor has returned to Mayo training ahead of next Saturday\u2019s All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Louth.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran sharpshooter returns after being\u00a0sidelined through injury since Mayo\u2019s Connacht SFC semi-final defeat to Roscommon, while James Carr and Paddy Durcan have also regained full fitness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike everyone else he has to get through the next few sessions, but he\u2019ll be challenging for a place like everyone else,\u201d Mayo manager said of O\u2019Connor at last Friday\u2019s press event in Castlebar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames is flying too, he\u2019s kicking down my door looking for a place in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think both (O\u2019Connor and Durcan) should be okay, but we\u2019ll see. Fenton Kelly will be back in full training tonight. He\u2019s the most unlucky guy in the room really. He just had a little tweak but it\u2019s put him out for the last three games. But he\u2019s back training tonight, so he\u2019s a happy boy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDarren McHale, our highest-scorer last year, is the only one ruled out at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-lang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Most Read Stories<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Connor hands Mayo fitness boost July 06, 2026 Mayo&#8217;s Cillian O&#8217;Connor. \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan Byrne. Cillian O\u2019Connor has returned to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46],"class_list":["post-531591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}