{"id":98749,"date":"2025-10-02T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98749\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:18:14","slug":"i-wouldnt-have-foreseen-ger-getting-this-job-so-soon-rory-ocarroll-surprised-by-career-paths-of-brennan-and-gavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98749\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I wouldn\u2019t have foreseen Ger getting this job so soon\u2019 \u2013 Rory O\u2019Carroll surprised by career paths of Brennan and Gavin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory O'Carroll with Jim Gavin during their time with the Dublin footballers. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1772270.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)\">Rory O&#8217;Carroll with Jim Gavin during their time with the Dublin footballers. 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)\">These conversations with a current or, ever increasingly now, a past player often coincide with a product push. Rory O\u2019Carroll is promoting a school.<\/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)\">But then he has always stood apart, one who got behind causes from concussion in sport to a \u2018yes\u2019 vote in the marriage equality referendum and Irish sporting figures\u2019 support for Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory O&#8217;Carroll with Jim Gavin during their time with the Dublin footballers. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile These conversations with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[25558,18614,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-98749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-colm-keys","9":"tag-dublin-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98749","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=98749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}