{"id":11238,"date":"2025-09-10T02:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11238\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:19:06","slug":"leinster-add-south-african-backrow-josh-neill-to-academy-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11238\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster add South African backrow Josh Neill to academy \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">South African-born Josh Neill has been added to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\">Leinster<\/a> Academy\u2019s year one intake and will join the province early in the new year, academy manager Simon Broughton has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish-qualified backrow is currently attending Rondebosch Boys\u2019 High School in Cape Town and played for the South Africa under-18s in the summer series against France, England and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 18-year-old, who plays his club rugby with Western Province, qualifies to play for Ireland through his grandparents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He will join the rest of the academy intake in early 2026 when his school year finishes in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Josh has an older brother, Jordan, who is already based in Ireland and currently playing cricket with Northern Knights. He has played with Ireland under-19s and made his Irish senior debut in the One Day International game against the West Indies earlier this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South African-born Josh Neill has been added to Leinster Academy\u2019s year one intake and will join the province&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11287,11288,112],"class_list":["post-11238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-south-africa-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}