{"id":188086,"date":"2025-12-12T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:48:07","slug":"gareth-mcelroy-named-in-ireland-colleges-universities-for-game-against-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188086\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth McElroy named in Ireland Colleges &#038; Universities for game against France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth McElroy has been named on the Ireland Colleges and Universities international team for a game against the French Universities.<\/p>\n<p>The game will take place on Wednesday, December 17, at Athlone Town Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The fixture follows on from the team\u2019s first run-out under Head Coach Paul O\u2019Reilly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/section\/109\/sport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when they faced the Defence Forces.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McElroy, a student at ATU Sligo and a player with Sligo Rovers in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland, is among those included.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The squad is made up of players attached to League of Ireland clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/soccer\/1966125\/roma-mclaughlin-departs-shelbourne-after-two-seasons.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roma McLaughlin departs Shelbourne after two seasons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old from Burnfoot, defender McElroy played 21 times this year for Sligo and scored two goals.<\/p>\n<p>His Sligo Rovers team-mates Kyle Gabbidon, Kyle McDonagh, Conor Reynolds are also included in the panel.<\/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":"Gareth McElroy has been named on the Ireland Colleges and Universities international team for a game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75385,34422,61,60,43,14169],"class_list":["post-188086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-burnfoot","tag-donegal-democrat","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sligo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188086","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=188086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}