{"id":25900,"date":"2025-09-16T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25900\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:15:08","slug":"laois-student-ready-to-defend-worldskills-ireland-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25900\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois Student Ready To Defend WorldSkills Ireland Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 16 September 2025 16:29\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68c9824298be1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo credit: Instagram\/@worldskillsireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Portarlington&#8217;s Ruan Murgatroyd is the reigning champion in WorldSkills Ireland&#8217;s cloud computing category.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Laois student is set to defend his cloud computing title at this years WorldSkills Ireland competition.<\/p>\n<p>Secondary school students will go head to head across different skills based trades at the RDS in Dublin this week.<\/p>\n<p>Portarlington&#8217;s Ruan Murgatroyd is the reigning champion in his category, with other Midlands students taking part in different catagories.<\/p>\n<p>Coolrain&#8217;s Brian Kuehnle takes on industrial mechanics, Portlaoise&#8217;s Aoife Conroy is entered in beauty therapy and Westmeath&#8217;s Ryan Boyne is in polymechanics and automation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Murgatroyd says his category is full of complex challenges:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 16 September 2025 16:29 Photo credit: Instagram\/@worldskillsireland Portarlington&#8217;s Ruan Murgatroyd is the reigning champion in WorldSkills Ireland&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-25900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900","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=25900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}