{"id":191118,"date":"2025-11-20T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/191118\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:35:11","slug":"paddy-kirk-kenny-cunningham-came-in-and-i-was-serving-him-the-day-of-the-dublin-derby-i-never-brought-up-that-id-be-playing-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/191118\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Kirk: &#8216;Kenny Cunningham came in and I was serving him the day of the Dublin derby. I never brought up that I\u2019d be playing in it&#8217;"},"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\">\nFormer footballer Paddy Kirk used to experiment with photography on the side, now his love of coffee and taking pictures has led to a new book and an exciting new cafe venture\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Bohemians footballer Paddy Kirk. Photo: Luke Sean Murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2823ce3-3cbb-4855-b380-5dec9020d396.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)\">Former Bohemians footballer Paddy Kirk. Photo: Luke Sean Murphy<\/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)\">\u201cI was working in As One, the coffee shop, when I was playing for the Bohs first team, in my first year there,\u201d Paddy Kirk recalls. \u201cKenny Cunningham does a lot of the commentary for Premier Sports, and had a studio around the corner. He came in and I was serving him that morning, which was the day of the Dublin derby [Bohemians vs. Shamrock Rovers].<\/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)\">\u201cI was asking him if he was covering the game later, and he was. We chatted a little about the match, but I never brought up that I\u2019d be playing in it. I was thinking, later, \u2018This is the biggest game in Irish football and here I am, on match-day, serving Kenny flat whites.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former footballer Paddy Kirk used to experiment with photography on the side, now his love of coffee and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[43515,52,18,19,17,4746,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-191118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bohemian-fc","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-life-magazine","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115583236912246982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191118","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=191118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}