{"id":129395,"date":"2025-10-18T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129395\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:42:11","slug":"from-a-trial-under-micko-to-a-final-at-56-rathcoffeys-vintage-veteran-sean-moriarty-is-no-wilting-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129395\/","title":{"rendered":"From a trial under Micko to a final at 56 . . . Rathcoffey\u2019s \u2018Vintage Veteran\u2019 Se\u00e1n Moriarty is no wilting Lily"},"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\">Player who made national airwaves after playing at centre-back in Kildare decider says talks about retirement \u2013 four decades into his adult senior career \u2013 are no longer on the table\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rathcoffey\u2019s evergreen veteran,\u00a0Se\u00e1n Moriarty,\u00a0pictured with his son Tom after the two featured in a\u00a0league match for their club earlier this year.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PHOTO_2025_10_15_15_09_08.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)\">Rathcoffey\u2019s evergreen veteran,\u00a0Se\u00e1n Moriarty,\u00a0pictured with his son Tom after the two featured in a\u00a0league match for their club earlier this year.<\/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)\">Se\u00e1n Moriarty made the national airwaves last Tuesday morning \u2013 and was totally oblivious until his mobile started pinging.<\/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)\">Oliver Callan had picked up the story from the Kildare local media of how Moriarty had started a championship final for Rathcoffey the previous Saturday, at the grand young age of 57 (allegedly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player who made national airwaves after playing at centre-back in Kildare decider says talks about retirement \u2013 four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,31185,19,17,35463,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-129395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-frank-roche","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kildare-gaa","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129395","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=129395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}