{"id":126944,"date":"2025-11-07T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126944\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:31:09","slug":"mayo-family-to-feature-on-irelands-fittest-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126944\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo family to feature on Ireland&#8217;s Fittest Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, one Mayo family will appear on RT\u00c9\u2019s well-known series, Ireland\u2019s Fittest Family. The Mc Donagh family from Geesala will appear on this week&#8217;s episode which will be shown on RTE One at 6.30pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The McDonagh family is made up of Pat, a coach at the local Geesala Boxing club, Leah who is an Irish Champion, Daniel who has made it to two All-Ireland finals and Matthew who has also competed at a high level in Boxing circles. In the past, Matthew has gone up against Paddy Donovan who recently fought in a world title fight where he controversially lost out.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt the McDonagh family who have a huge love for the sport of boxing will give it their all as they compete against other families in the popular RT\u00c9 series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paying tribute on Facebook was Cllr Gerry Coyle who said that the McDonagh\u2019s are \u2018wonderful pillars of the community\u2019 and will be a \u2018force to be reckoned with\u2019 on Ireland\u2019s Fittest Family.<\/p>\n<p>You can tune in to watch the McDonagh family in action on Sunday evening from 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/news\/sport\/1937028\/son-of-a-mayo-mother-set-to-make-his-irish-debut-on-saturday.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">READ MORE: Son of a Mayo mother set to make his Irish debut on Saturday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Banner_NEWS-1762513287781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"169\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Sunday, one Mayo family will appear on RT\u00c9\u2019s well-known series, Ireland\u2019s Fittest Family. The Mc Donagh family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74698,61,60,74699,8764,43,6085],"class_list":["post-126944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-geesala","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irelands-fittest-family","tag-mayo","tag-news","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126944","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=126944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}