{"id":309813,"date":"2026-02-21T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:22:10","slug":"shock-for-wicklow-gaa-stalwart-after-being-chosen-for-volunteers-in-sport-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309813\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock for Wicklow GAA stalwart after being chosen for Volunteers in Sport Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lucy Mooney of Hollywood GAA.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b90f51c0-15b1-4ddb-a417-6bf01de8cda0.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)\">Lucy Mooney of Hollywood GAA.<\/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)\">Wicklow GAA volunteer Lucy Mooney says she was \u201cvery honoured\u201d and \u201ccompletely surprised\u201d after discovering she had been named the county\u2019s 2025 recipient of the Volunteers in Sport Awards \u2014 a recognition she didn\u2019t even know she\u2019d been nominated for.<\/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)\">The Hollywood GAA stalwart learned of the award only when a call from Sport Ireland arrived, a moment she quietly kept to herself until the announcement was made at the club\u2019s dinner dance to huge excitement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy Mooney of Hollywood GAA. Wicklow GAA volunteer Lucy Mooney says she was \u201cvery honoured\u201d and \u201ccompletely surprised\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4657,112],"class_list":["post-309813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myles-buchanan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309813","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=309813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}