{"id":467210,"date":"2026-05-04T01:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:36:13","slug":"these-things-can-come-and-go-kieran-mcgeeney-tries-to-play-down-hype-after-armaghs-historic-semi-win-over-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467210\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018These things can come and go\u2019 \u2013 Kieran McGeeney tries to play down hype after Armagh\u2019s historic semi win over Down"},"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\">Ulster SFC semi-final: Armagh 3-33 Down 0-14\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ois\u00edn O'Neill of Armagh kicks a two-point score during the Ulster SFC semi-final against Down at St Tiernach's Park in Clones, Monaghan. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3445386.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)\">Ois\u00edn O&#8217;Neill of Armagh kicks a two-point score during the Ulster SFC semi-final against Down at St Tiernach&#8217;s Park in Clones, Monaghan. Photo by 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)\">It\u2019s a case of \u201ceaten bread is soon forgotten\u201d for Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney despite putting up the biggest score in Ulster SFC history en route to setting up a provincial final date with Monaghan.<\/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)\">There was only one team in it from 15 minutes onwards, with the Orchard men delivering a scintillating attacking display against a Down side devoid of energy just a week after producing the shock of the summer for the ages against Donegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster SFC semi-final: Armagh 3-33 Down 0-14 Ois\u00edn O&#8217;Neill of Armagh kicks a two-point score during the Ulster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47006,9,10,108677,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,886,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-467210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-armagh-gaa","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-down-gaa","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-michael-verney","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116513747038630974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467210","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=467210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}