{"id":288796,"date":"2026-01-17T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:32:10","slug":"two-point-surge-fires-sligo-past-rossies-to-claim-connacht-shield-spoils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288796\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-point surge fires Sligo past Rossies to claim Connacht Shield spoils"},"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\">FBD Connacht GAA Shield final: Sligo 1-18 Roscommon 2-14\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sligo joint managers Eamonn O'Hara, left, and Dessie Sloyan enjoyed some early-season silverware in the FBD Connacht Shield. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/59805c89-bad7-4d3d-aeee-2c354e6ae91a.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)\">Sligo joint managers Eamonn O&#8217;Hara, left, and Dessie Sloyan enjoyed some early-season silverware in the FBD Connacht Shield. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/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)\">Late two-pointers from Pat Spillane and Lee Deignan enabled Sligo rescue victory from the jaws of defeat and claim FBD Shield honours at the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence.<\/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)\">A strong final-quarter performance by Roscommon, helped by substitute Darragh Heneghan\u2019s 50th-minute goal with his first touch, looked to have handed the Rossies victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FBD Connacht GAA Shield final: Sligo 1-18 Roscommon 2-14 Sligo joint managers Eamonn O&#8217;Hara, left, and Dessie Sloyan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,111429,127827,132],"class_list":["post-288796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-roscommon-gaa","tag-sligo-gaa","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115909043424111611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288796","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=288796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}