{"id":248923,"date":"2026-01-17T03:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248923\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:37:10","slug":"joshua-kenny-the-making-of-leinsters-wicklow-wing-wizard-he-was-running-over-lads-and-running-around-lads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248923\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Kenny &#8211; The making\u00a0of Leinster\u2019s Wicklow wing wizard:\u00a0\u2018He was running over lads and running around lads\u2019"},"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\">Growth spurt during Covid and stint with Ireland sevens has turned Joshua Kenny into a star\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pres Bray's JJ (or Joshua) Kenny had a growth spurt before 6th year in school before he made his breakthrough with Leinster.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e1e5e72c-35f0-4ed7-b511-42fe3b7a84a3.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)\">Pres Bray&#8217;s JJ (or Joshua) Kenny had a growth spurt before 6th year in school before he made his breakthrough with Leinster.<\/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)\">Every year, the students at Presentation College, Bray hold a vote of staff and students to recognise a graduating sixth year student who has had a lasting impact on the school.<\/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)\">Named after past-pupil Aaron Smith, a recipient of the award who died at the age of 29 in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growth spurt during Covid and stint with Ireland sevens has turned Joshua Kenny into a star Pres Bray&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11287,16766,124885,112],"class_list":["post-248923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-schools-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248923","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=248923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}