{"id":18634,"date":"2025-07-24T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18634\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:43:08","slug":"west-belfasts-mckenna-training-young-boxers-in-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18634\/","title":{"rendered":"West Belfast&#8217;s McKenna training young boxers in the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST Belfast professional boxer Tyrone McKenna is currently in Palestine training young students in the art of boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone plans to stay for three weeks as he <a href=\"https:\/\/belfastmedia.com\/the-mighty-celt-is-not-done-copy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kick-starts his own camp for his upcoming fight<\/a>, but also to help to inspire the next generation to get involved in sports. More importantly it will provide a welcome distraction from the horrific situation that the young people in Palestine are facing on a daily basis in these current times.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>ACLA\u00cd Community Gym, known as ACLA\u00cd Palestine, is located within the Lajee Centre in the Aida refugee camp, on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the West Bank. It\u2019s a community-focused fitness and movement space that was founded by Belfast\u2019s Ainle\u202f\u00d3\u202fCaireall\u00e1in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpcorry.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JPCORY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"243\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tyrone is not only training the kids but also helping to raise funds to support the development of and secure the future of the project. You can donate online <a href=\"https:\/\/belfastmedia.com\/donorbox.org\/aclaipalestine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST Belfast professional boxer Tyrone McKenna is currently in Palestine training young students in the art of boxing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[19848,19851,64,63,19852,802,7781,44,19846,19849,19847,5492,19850,588,85],"class_list":["post-18634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-andersonstown-news","tag-andytown-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belfast-media-group","tag-boxing","tag-comment","tag-news","tag-news-belfast","tag-north-belfast-news","tag-north-of-ireland","tag-northern-ireland","tag-south-belfast-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}