{"id":196122,"date":"2025-12-17T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196122\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:05:09","slug":"how-schools-rugby-powerhouse-terenure-college-is-becoming-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with-in-gaelic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196122\/","title":{"rendered":"How schools rugby powerhouse Terenure College is becoming a force to be reckoned with in Gaelic games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Famed Dublin southside nursery contesting their first Leinster Schools \u2018A\u2019 football quarter-final today\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Terenure senior football team ahead of their Leinster schools 'A' clash with Col\u00e1iste Choilm Tullamore. Photo: Rory Ringwood.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4f25ecb1-1a0e-474f-b698-6d5031f016ce.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Terenure senior football team ahead of their Leinster schools &#8216;A&#8217; clash with Col\u00e1iste Choilm Tullamore. Photo: Rory Ringwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rugby, badminton and athletics were the dominant sports in Terenure College when P\u00e1draig Forde first started teaching there in 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But basketball, soccer and GAA have grown hugely since the 2000s and the senior Gaelic football team are competing in their first Leinster \u2018A\u2019 Colleges quarter-final today. Forde is the manager on a completely homegrown coaching team that includes two past students, Dan McCarthy and James McCormack, both Dublin underage players, as well as Kevin Roberts, a teacher in the school involved with St Jude\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famed Dublin southside nursery contesting their first Leinster Schools \u2018A\u2019 football quarter-final today The Terenure senior football team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2179,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-196122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196122","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=196122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}