{"id":192911,"date":"2025-12-15T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:52:09","slug":"medals-secured-for-ireland-at-european-cross-country-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192911\/","title":{"rendered":"Medals Secured For Ireland At European Cross Country Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 15 December 2025 12:45\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694002b2235c0.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: X\/@irishathletics<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Midlands athletes were in action in Portugal yesterday.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Team Ireland took four medals at the European Cross Country Championships in Portugal yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nick Griggs claimed gold in the individual under-23s event &#8211; and that also helped Ireland take team gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The senior men&#8217;s team secured a silver medal, while Emma Hickey won bronze in the women&#8217;s under-20s section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Westmeath\u2019s Jack O\u2019Leary spearheaded the Irish effort with an impressive 5th-place finish, while Brian Fay also delivered a strong performance, finishing 10th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cormac Dalton, was just behind in 11th, with Darragh McElhinney in 16th and Efrem Gidey 19th.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Danielle Donegan of ullamore Harriers was 36th, with Mary Mulhare from Portlaoise AC ending in 50th and Ava O&#8217;Connor finished 25th in the U23 Women&#8217;s Race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 15 December 2025 12:45 Photo Credit: X\/@irishathletics Midlands athletes were in action in Portugal yesterday. Team Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-192911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192911","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=192911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}