{"id":476045,"date":"2026-05-09T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:41:11","slug":"eoin-kelly-id-love-to-be-playing-now-you-wouldnt-get-broken-teeth-or-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476045\/","title":{"rendered":"Eoin Kelly: \u2018I\u2019d love to be playing now \u2013 you wouldn\u2019t get broken teeth or fingers\u2019"},"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\">\nWaterford legend fondly recalls his own career during simpler times as D\u00e9ise and Rebels collide once more\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Waterford's Eoin Kelly celebrates after scoring a goal against Cork in the 2004 Munster SHC final at Semple Stadium, Thurles. Photo: Pat Murphy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/59bf9ec9-726e-462a-90ab-dc556c71d7a1.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)\">Waterford&#8217;s Eoin Kelly celebrates after scoring a goal against Cork in the 2004 Munster SHC final at Semple Stadium, Thurles. Photo: Pat Murphy\/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)\">Eoin Kelly sat down to watch Limerick and Clare duke it out in Ennis last Sunday and he couldn\u2019t believe what he was seeing. It was like hurling from a world that he had little familiarity with compared to his own playing days.<\/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)\">\u201cYeah, no one seems to mark anyone anymore!\u201d the Waterford legend says of whether he would like to be playing in the modern game. \u201cI watched Clare and Limerick the other day, there was no marking. It was mental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford legend fondly recalls his own career during simpler times as D\u00e9ise and Rebels collide once more Waterford&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[26611,24,18,19,17,886,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-476045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-waterford-gaa","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-michael-verney","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116543493676552189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476045","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=476045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}