{"id":269774,"date":"2026-01-29T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:06:09","slug":"kerrys-breda-slemon-awarded-ireland-cap-decades-after-u18-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269774\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry\u2019s Breda Slemon awarded Ireland cap decades after U18 appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listowel's Breda Slemon pictured with her long-awaited Irish international cap which she received last week, 34 years after she played for Ireland against Australia in Tolka Park.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/37aa7b6c-dc8d-45f0-bb92-a27ee03b5d81.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)\">Listowel&#8217;s Breda Slemon pictured with her long-awaited Irish international cap which she received last week, 34 years after she played for Ireland against Australia in Tolka Park.<\/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)\">Listowel\u2019s Breda Slemon is a very proud woman this week after the former Listowel Celtic soccer player finally got her hands on her long-awaited Irish international cap, 34 years after she lined out for her country.<\/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)\">It was back in January of 1992 that Breda took to the field with the Irish Women\u2019s U18 team that played against Australia in Tolka Park but it wouldn\u2019t be until January of 2026 that she would finally get her physical memento of one of the proudest moments of her sporting career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listowel&#8217;s Breda Slemon pictured with her long-awaited Irish international cap which she received last week, 34 years after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14639,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-269774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fergus-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269774","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=269774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}