{"id":452816,"date":"2026-04-25T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/452816\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:37:11","slug":"michael-verney-my-day-on-the-road-with-leitrims-footballers-paints-a-picture-few-others-could-relate-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/452816\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Verney: My day on the road with Leitrim\u2019s footballers paints a picture few others could relate to"},"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\">\nThe panellists\u2019 journey from Dublin to training in Leitrim\u2019s Centre of Excellence shows the county have reasons to be cheerful despite dark days in the past\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"On the road again: Tom Prior and Fergal McLoughlin, front (L to R), with Michael Verney and Jack Kelly, back (L to R),  en route to Leitrim training on Thursday night from their Dublin base\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9120.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)\">On the road again: Tom Prior and Fergal McLoughlin, front (L to R), with Michael Verney and Jack Kelly, back (L to R),  en route to Leitrim training on Thursday night from their Dublin base<\/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)\">No sooner am I added to a \u2018Road Trip\u2019 WhatsApp group by Steven Poacher and introduced to my new carpool buddies than the Leitrim football manager quickly departs.<\/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)\">The element of control that most county bosses crave is quickly relinquished as free rein is given to see how the other half live on the eve of their biggest game in many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The panellists\u2019 journey from Dublin to training in Leitrim\u2019s Centre of Excellence shows the county have reasons to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,49533,886,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-452816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-leitrim-gaa","12":"tag-michael-verney","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116463970653818209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452816","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=452816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}