{"id":462423,"date":"2026-05-01T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462423\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:46:12","slug":"frank-roche-prepare-for-the-polar-extremes-where-provincial-glory-game-meets-grim-spectre-of-the-tailteann-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462423\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Roche: Prepare for the polar extremes \u2013 where provincial glory game meets grim spectre of the Tailteann Cup"},"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 summer fate of Westmeath, Down and Cavan will be decided this Sunday\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kieran Martin of Westmeath scores the match-winning goal against Cavan in the 2022 Tailteann Cup final. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2286912.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)\">Kieran Martin of Westmeath scores the match-winning goal against Cavan in the 2022 Tailteann Cup final. Photo: 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)\">For Westmeath and Down, it\u2019s either Super Sunday or the subterranean alternative.<\/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 polar extremes could not be greater: a provincial final parade, with all the bells and whistles attached, or the booby prize of a sparsely attended home draw in the Tailteann Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The summer fate of Westmeath, Down and Cavan will be decided this Sunday Kieran Martin of Westmeath scores&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[184213,108677,18,19,17,132,7179],"class_list":["post-462423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-ireland-senior-football-championship","tag-down-gaa","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-westmeath-gaa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116496799885261443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462423","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=462423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}