{"id":112586,"date":"2025-10-10T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112586\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:04:09","slug":"conor-mckeon-john-small-dublins-quiet-soldier-stands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112586\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: John Small \u2013 Dublin\u2019s quiet soldier \u2013 stands down"},"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\">Retirement of seven-time All-Ireland-winning defender a blow to new Sky Blues boss Ger Brennan\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Physicality, mixed with pace, was a key part of John Small\u2019s repertoire in the blue of Dublin. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/52c3b327-715c-4bef-bc37-520af69075d2.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)\">Physicality, mixed with pace, was a key part of John Small\u2019s repertoire in the blue of Dublin. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">Call it the Jimmy Keaveney effect. The condition of automatic scepticism around the status of a retired Dublin footballer.<\/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)\">Every off-season for the past five or six goes like this. The autumn inquisition. Is Cluxton coming back \u2013 again? What\u2019s the story with Fenton? Is he travelling? Whereabouts is Jack McCaffrey working now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retirement of seven-time All-Ireland-winning defender a blow to new Sky Blues boss Ger Brennan Physicality, mixed with pace,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[31891,18614,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-112586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-dublin-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}