{"id":214662,"date":"2025-12-28T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214662\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:27:07","slug":"rte-archives-sports-george-best-cork-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214662\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Archives | Sports | George Best Cork Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"leadin\">Full house at Flower Lodge as George Best makes his Cork Celtic debut in the League of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Former Manchester United star George Best brought thousands of fans to Flower Lodge, the home of Cork Celtic, for their league clash with Drogheda United.<\/p>\n<p>Having George Best in the team was not enough for Cork Celtic, who were beaten 2-0 by Drogheda United. Cork Celtic did get a financial boost from an attendance of 12,000 for the game.<\/p>\n<p>An RT\u00c9 News report broadcast on 28 December 1975. The footage shown here is mute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full house at Flower Lodge as George Best makes his Cork Celtic debut in the League of Ireland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[111574,93,90392,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-214662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cork-celtic","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-best","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214662","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=214662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}