{"id":488742,"date":"2026-05-17T05:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/488742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:08:14","slug":"its-been-a-really-hard-and-emotional-rollercoaster-of-a-week-johnny-kelly-dedicates-offaly-win-to-stricken-captain-charlie-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/488742\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s been a really hard and emotional rollercoaster of a week&#8217; &#8211; Johnny Kelly dedicates Offaly win to stricken captain Charlie Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Offaly manager Johnny Kelly speaks to his players before the Leinster SHC match against Wexford in Tullamore. Photo: Tom Beary\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0003fb1b-61f7-4a17-9816-52ca43eaeadc.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)\">Offaly manager Johnny Kelly speaks to his players before the Leinster SHC match against Wexford in Tullamore. Photo: Tom Beary\/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)\">Offaly hurling boss Johnny Kelly dedicated a famous Leinster SHC victory over Wexford to their stricken captain Charlie Mitchell after &#8220;a really hard and emotional rollercoaster of a week&#8221;.<\/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)\">Mitchell fell ill after playing in the Faithful&#8217;s draw against Kilkenny last Sunday but his team-mates stood up in his absence to record a first championship win over Wexford since 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offaly manager Johnny Kelly speaks to his players before the Leinster SHC match against Wexford in Tullamore. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,886,5,37221,7,8],"class_list":["post-488742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-michael-verney","tag-news","tag-offaly-gaa","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116588190912224381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488742","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=488742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}