{"id":487415,"date":"2026-05-16T08:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:29:15","slug":"the-most-enjoyable-years-i-ever-had-how-the-magic-of-paidi-o-se-carried-westmeath-to-the-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487415\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The most enjoyable years I ever had\u2019 \u2014 how the magic of P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9 carried Westmeath to the Holy Grail"},"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\">\nGiddy disbelief greeted the Kerry legend\u2019s grand entry to Westmeath, on the rebound from the Kingdom. Just like 2004, the Dubs are looming again \u2013 but can the underdogs really dream of Leinster glory?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Westmeath manager P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 Se is congratulated by fans after their victory over Laois in the Leinster SFC final replay in July 2004. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa92f174-0b1f-4ff7-80d8-e3b0585d9b94.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)\">Westmeath manager P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 Se is congratulated by fans after their victory over Laois in the Leinster SFC final replay in July 2004. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Flatharta is sitting down in a Dublin hotel, recalling various anecdotes from \u201cthe most enjoyable two years\u201d he ever spent as P\u00e1id\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9\u2019s right-hand man in Westmeath.<\/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)\">Many of the stories from 2004, that \u2018Summer of P\u00e1id\u00ed\u2019 when the jilted manager of Kerry rebounded into the arms of Westmeath and made Leinster history, have gone down in Lake County lore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giddy disbelief greeted the Kerry legend\u2019s grand entry to Westmeath, on the rebound from the Kingdom. Just like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10416,18,31185,19,17,132,7179],"class_list":{"0":"post-487415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-frank-roche","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-westmeath-gaa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116583319678482400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487415","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=487415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}