{"id":278858,"date":"2026-02-03T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:38:09","slug":"paul-kimmage-niall-ocarrolls-performance-at-rowing-irelands-oireachtas-appearance-left-us-shaking-our-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278858\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage: Niall O\u2019Carroll\u2019s performance at Rowing Ireland\u2019s Oireachtas appearance left us shaking our heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Kimmage with Monika Dukarska outside Leinster House last Wednesday. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bebd1a46-9f58-4fa2-a82b-38f94487b97f.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)\">Paul Kimmage with Monika Dukarska outside Leinster House last Wednesday. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">In the summer of 1990, five days before the Republic of Ireland\u2019s opening game against England at the World Cup, I had just checked-in to a small hotel near Rome when the receptionist presented me with a note to call the office.<\/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 actually a telegram \u2014 that\u2019s what we called WhatsApp back then. There was no world wide web or smart phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage with Monika Dukarska outside Leinster House last Wednesday. Photo: Mark Condren In the summer of 1990,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,42965,112],"class_list":["post-278858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paul-kimmage","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278858","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=278858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}