{"id":334413,"date":"2026-03-07T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334413\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:45:09","slug":"caolan-mcfadden-signs-off-schools-career-with-latest-all-ireland-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334413\/","title":{"rendered":"Caolan McFadden signs off schools career with latest All-Ireland gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caolan McFadden signed off from his schools cross country career in style on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>McFadden won the senior boys race at the All-Ireland Schools Cross Country Championships in Mallusk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/section\/109\/sport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Cranford AC runner<\/a>, a student at Loreto Milford, is bound for Villanova University in Pennsylvania on an athletics scholarship in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>The Creeslough teenager &#8211; a multiple national medallist over the years &#8211; took a memorable victory to land his latest national gold medal and it was a Donegal one-two with McFadden winning from Odhran McBrearty.<\/p>\n<p>The Finn Valley AC athlete and St Columba\u2019s College, Stranorlar student was second, around seven seconds behind McFadden after a thrilling race.<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/soccer\/2032728\/new-dad-tony-mcnamee-leads-finn-harps-after-baby-theo-arrives.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New dad Tony McNamee leads Finn Harps after baby Theo arrives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The margins were finer still with just six seconds between second and fourth.<\/p>\n<p>McBrearty, a back-to-back winner of the intermediate race at this event, will be expected to be in the mix again next year.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caolan McFadden signed off from his schools cross country career in style on Saturday. McFadden won the senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[153817,34422,57922,61,60,32690,43,59391],"class_list":{"0":"post-334413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cranford-ac","9":"tag-donegal-democrat","10":"tag-finn-valley-ac","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-milford","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-stranorlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334413","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=334413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}