{"id":272648,"date":"2026-01-30T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:01:13","slug":"blackrocks-leinster-schools-senior-cup-three-in-a-row-bid-still-on-track-after-holding-off-castleknock-in-11-try-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272648\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackrock\u2019s Leinster Schools Senior Cup three-in-a-row bid still on track after holding off Castleknock in 11-try thriller"},"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\">Blackrock College 47 St Vincent\u2019s Castleknock College 32\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Keaveney of Blackrock College scores the sixth try against St Vincent's Castleknock College at Energia Park in Dublin. Photo by Matt Browne\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/66f75338-9c2b-4e45-ab1f-a7dedf5cea8b.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)\">Thomas Keaveney of Blackrock College scores the sixth try against St Vincent&#8217;s Castleknock College at Energia Park in Dublin. Photo by Matt Browne\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Courageous Castleknock gave the champions all the problems they could handle in an eleven-try shootout in the Leinster Schools Senior Cup first round at Energia Park on Friday afternoon.<\/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)\">Castleknock had first shot at an attack from a lineout, earning a penalty, slotted by Matthew Brennan in the sixth minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackrock College 47 St Vincent\u2019s Castleknock College 32 Thomas Keaveney of Blackrock College scores the sixth try against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,124885,112],"class_list":["post-272648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-schools-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272648","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=272648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}