{"id":413506,"date":"2026-03-31T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/413506\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:01:14","slug":"colm-keys-donegal-raise-the-possession-stakes-with-skill-in-keeping-ball-from-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/413506\/","title":{"rendered":"Colm Keys: Donegal raise the possession stakes with skill in keeping ball from Kerry"},"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\">There is much for Kingdom to digest, top being their inability to disrupt chains of command\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donegal manager Jim McGuinness with members of his backroom team after his side\u2019s victory over Kerry in the NFL Division 1 final. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3409797.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)\">Donegal manager Jim McGuinness with members of his backroom team after his side\u2019s victory over Kerry in the NFL Division 1 final. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">Many moons ago, Armagh played Galway in the All-Ireland senior football final and were content in the closing stages to protect a slender lead by putting boot to ball to get it as far away from the danger zone as possible.<\/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)\">It wasn\u2019t aimless. One such clearance found its way to Niall Grimley for their final score, while a follow-up landed in Ross McQuillan\u2019s vicinity in Galway\u2019s half, but Galway were able to recover it and build again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is much for Kingdom to digest, top being their inability to disrupt chains of command Donegal manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[10416,80069,25558,17159,18,19,17,132],"class_list":["post-413506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-allianz-football-league","tag-colm-keys","tag-donegal-gaa","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116324866068527727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413506","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=413506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}