{"id":250504,"date":"2026-01-18T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:02:08","slug":"cork-soccer-star-denise-osullivan-moves-to-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250504\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork soccer star Denise O&#8217;Sullivan moves to Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Republic of Ireland midfielder Denise O&#8217;Sullivan has confirmed her departure from NWSL side North Carolina Courage after almost a decade of service &#8211; and completed a mooted move to WSL outfit Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;It means a lot,&#8221; the Holyhill native said of the Mrseyside move. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very proud moment for myself and also for my family, who are now only a 40-minute flight away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Liverpool is a massive club and I think when you join a club as big as Liverpool it comes with massive responsibility and I can&#8217;t wait to get to work and to give 100 per cent every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">NEW CHALLENGE<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Cork native had called North Carolina Courage home since 2017 and the Ireland centurion released a statement on her X account, noting she is &#8220;onto a new challenge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Nine years. One club. A lifetime of memories,&#8221; the 31-year-old&#8217;s statement read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            It\u2019s hard to put into words what this club has truly meant to me.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;North Carolina will always be home and I\u2019m forever grateful to the club, my teammates, and the incredible fans who supported me &amp; believed in me every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I\u2019m onto a new challenge now, but I\u2019ll always be part of Courage Country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything.\u201d O&#8217;Sullivan will link up with Ireland international teammate Leanne Kiernan at the WSL strugglers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland midfielder Denise O&#8217;Sullivan has confirmed her departure from NWSL side North Carolina Courage after almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16250,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-250504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-soccer","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250504","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=250504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}