{"id":97717,"date":"2025-08-28T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97717\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:37:11","slug":"conor-mckeon-the-golf-can-wait-for-jack-oconnor-with-much-loftier-ambitions-to-chase-with-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97717\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: The golf can wait for Jack O\u2019Connor with much loftier ambitions to chase with Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry manager Jack O\u2019Connor will be trying to oversee a sixth All-Ireland SFC win in 2026. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/708da3c7-76f9-4dd8-af17-6b0a6125c890.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 manager Jack O\u2019Connor will be trying to oversee a sixth All-Ireland SFC win in 2026. 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 golf can wait. His grandson will have to keep working on his swing a little while longer. Dromid will still be there in a couple of years. All those reasons Jack O\u2019Connor gave to soften up an exit as Kerry manager in that press conference after the All-Ireland final? They\u2019ve all melted in the last four-and-a-half weeks like wax over an open flame.<\/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)\">In one sense, O\u2019Connor\u2019s reappointment for a further two years, confirmed last night, is the most obvious thing in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry manager Jack O\u2019Connor will be trying to oversee a sixth All-Ireland SFC win in 2026. Photo: Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[48001,5904,48000,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-97717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-conor-mckeon","tag-golf","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}