{"id":308174,"date":"2026-02-20T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308174\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:50:09","slug":"around-23000-americans-visited-ireland-for-last-years-college-football-classic-in-dublins-aviva-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308174\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 23,000 American&#8217;s Visited Ireland For Last Years College Football Classic in Dublin\u2019s Aviva Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 20 February 2026 14:05\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Emma O&#8217;Connor\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/67a722ccda045.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Another game will take place in the capital on August 29th.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Just under 23,000 US visitors travelled to attend the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin\u2019s Aviva Stadium last year, many of whom stayed for seven nights.<\/p>\n<p>The game, between the Kansas State Wildcats and the Iowa State Cyclones, generated 132 million euro for the Irish economy, according to an economic impact report from Grant Thornton.<\/p>\n<p>Another game will take place in the capital on August 29th, between Texas Christian University and the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Buddie, TCU Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, says it benefits both the young players and the US sport to be exposed to other cultures around the world.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 20 February 2026 14:05 By Emma O&#8217;Connor Another game will take place in the capital on August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-308174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308174","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=308174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}