{"id":382593,"date":"2026-03-13T05:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382593\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:15:13","slug":"star-forward-cillian-oconnor-poised-to-make-first-mayo-appearance-after-21-month-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382593\/","title":{"rendered":"Star forward Cillian O\u2019Connor poised to make first Mayo appearance after 21-month absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cillian O'Connor, in action for Ballintubber, impressed in a recent challenge game for Mayo. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dfda7c9a-2164-47de-b95d-d6d1b53fc2d1.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)\">Cillian O&#8217;Connor, in action for Ballintubber, impressed in a recent challenge game for Mayo. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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)\">Cillian O\u2019Connor is edging closer to a Mayo return after a strong showing in a challenge game last weekend.<\/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)\">O\u2019Connor (33) is poised to join the squad for competitive action for the first time in 20 months when they play Kerry in Tralee on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cillian O&#8217;Connor, in action for Ballintubber, impressed in a recent challenge game for Mayo. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[25558,18,19,17,26710,132],"class_list":["post-382593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-colm-keys","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116220167724135673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382593","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=382593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}