{"id":467010,"date":"2026-05-03T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467010\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:30:11","slug":"even-minus-luke-loughlin-mark-mchughs-maroon-marvels-march-on-to-just-their-sixth-leinster-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467010\/","title":{"rendered":"Even minus Luke Loughlin, Mark McHugh\u2019s maroon marvels march on to just their\u00a0sixth Leinster final"},"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\">Leinster SFC semi-final: Westmeath 2-21 Kildare 0-23 (AET\u2013 1-16 to 0-19 after regular time)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shane Allen of Westmeath celebrates after his side's victory in the Leinster SFC semi-final against Kildare at Glenisk O'Connor Park in Tullamore, Offaly. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3445336.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)\">Shane Allen of Westmeath celebrates after his side&#8217;s victory in the Leinster SFC semi-final against Kildare at Glenisk O&#8217;Connor Park in Tullamore, Offaly. Photo by 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)\">Clearly, there is more to Westmeath than Luke Loughlin, for all the magic powers contained in his wand of a left boot.<\/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)\">And even with the irrepressible Matthew Whittaker on one good leg, Mark McHugh\u2019s team will find a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster SFC semi-final: Westmeath 2-21 Kildare 0-23 (AET\u2013 1-16 to 0-19 after regular time) Shane Allen of Westmeath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,31185,19,17,35463,132,7179],"class_list":{"0":"post-467010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-frank-roche","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kildare-gaa","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-westmeath-gaa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116513015953125341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467010","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=467010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}