{"id":169097,"date":"2025-11-08T03:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169097\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T03:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:58:26","slug":"dave-barry-tells-cork-citys-players-beat-shamrock-rovers-and-you-will-go-down-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169097\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Barry tells Cork City\u2019s players: \u2018Beat Shamrock Rovers and you will go down in history\u2019"},"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\">\nUnderdogs can win Sunday\u2019s FAI Cup final if they believe they can, says Rebels legend\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dave Barry skips past Joe Cassells of Meath during the 1988 All-Ireland SFC final replay at Croke Park. Photo: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3241794.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)\">Dave Barry skips past Joe Cassells of Meath during the 1988 All-Ireland SFC final replay at Croke Park. Photo: Ray McManus\/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)\">Different games and different codes with different demands. Sadly, though, often with the same outcome, one of crushing disappointment.<\/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)\">When Dave Barry was playing in what he\u2019s often called the \u2018blood and bandage\u2019 colours of the Cork Gaelic football team, the aim was often as simple as trying to be better than Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Underdogs can win Sunday\u2019s FAI Cup final if they believe they can, says Rebels legend Dave Barry skips&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2722,13425,43516,24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-169097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-aviva-stadium","10":"tag-cork-city","11":"tag-cork-gaa","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115512076529139555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169097","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=169097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}