{"id":242282,"date":"2026-01-13T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/242282\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:22:08","slug":"all-ireland-winning-offaly-captain-to-feature-on-new-series-of-laochra-gael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/242282\/","title":{"rendered":"All Ireland winning Offaly captain to feature on new series of Laochra Gael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offaly&#8217;s first All Ireland winning hurling captain will feature on the new series of Laochra Gael on TG4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e1draig Horan will be among those to feature on this season of the hugely popular programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24th series of the programme\u00a0features eight Laochra with genuine star quality and reveals deeper, fresh and sometimes unexpected insights into the lives of these icons.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e1draig Horan was captain when Offaly won the All-Ireland championship for the first time in 1981 &#8211; an achievement that marked a turning point for Offaly hurling and cemented his place in the county\u2019s sporting history.<\/p>\n<p>Admired for his determination and influence both on and off the field, he remains one of Offaly\u2019s most respected hurling figures.<\/p>\n<p>He played the game fearlessly, doing everything he could to overcome any challenges that came his way on the field but in recent years, off the field, he has been battling a much different challenge, Parkinsons Disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.offalyexpress.ie\/news\/gaa\/1987704\/hugely-popular-offaly-gaa-hall-of-famers-rekindle-golden-memories-of-1980s-at-awards.html\" style=\"background: #f3e8ff; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ NEXT: Hugely popular Offaly GAA hall of famers rekindle golden memories of 1980s at awards \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participants for the episode which will air on February 19 are:\u00a0 P\u00e1draig Horan; Carmel Horan; Pat Fleury; Joachim Kelly; Vincent Hogan; Ger Coughlan; Damien Martin; Liam Fennelly; Shane Horan; Cathal Horan; Niamh Horan; Diarmuid Horan; John Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Also featuring this season are Monaghan footballer Conor McManus, Galway&#8217;s Cyril Farrell, Kilkenny&#8217;s Grace Walsh, Down&#8217;s Marty Clarke, Antrim&#8217;s Neil McManus, Kerry&#8217;s\u00a0Louise N\u00ed Mhuircheartaigh and Dublin&#8217;s\u00a0Kevin McManamon.<\/p>\n<p>The new Laochra Gael season will air on TG4 at 9:30pm on Thursday evenings starting January 22 with Conor McManus.<\/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":"Offaly&#8217;s first All Ireland winning hurling captain will feature on the new series of Laochra Gael on TG4.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,8067,73040],"class_list":{"0":"post-242282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-offaly-gaa","12":"tag-offaly-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242282","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=242282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}