{"id":351150,"date":"2026-03-17T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:55:08","slug":"longford-pride-as-terrific-tadhg-beirne-stars-in-irelands-triple-crown-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351150\/","title":{"rendered":"Longford pride as terrific Tadhg Beirne stars in Ireland&#8217;s Triple Crown triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Longford<\/a> rugby fans are celebrating the Triple Crown success of the national team, with a particular pride in the achievements of Tadhg Beirne.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ireland secured the Guinness 6 Nations Rugby\u00a0Triple Crown trophy\u00a0following an heroic 43 to 21 victory over Scotland encounter at the Aviva Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Andy Farrell\u2019s men captured a fourth Triple Crown in five years thanks to tries by\u00a0Jamie Osborne, Dan Sheehan, Robert Baloucoune, Darragh Murray and Tommy O&#8217;Brien (two).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/search?q=Tadhg+Beirne&amp;idcanale=12&amp;idcanalericerca=12&amp;sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tadhg Beirne<\/a>&#8216;s dad is Gerry Beirne from Glen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/search?sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;q=Ardagh&amp;idcanale=12&amp;idcanalericerca=12&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ardagh<\/a>. Gerry went to school in Templemichael college and is now a Garda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gerry is married to Brenda Hyland, the 1983 Rose of Tralee winner who inspired the Christy Moore song.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/news\/rugby\/2037776\/longfords-dominic-greene-selected-for-ireland-u-19-rugby-league-squad.html\" style=\"color: #008000;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longford\u2019s Dominic Greene selected for Ireland U-19 Rugby League squad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gerry played under age county football and Tadhg&#8217;s uncle Michael played rugby with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/search?q=Longford+Rugby+Club&amp;idcanale=12&amp;idcanalericerca=12&amp;sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Longford Rugby Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for ability to win turnovers, Munster star Tadhg performed brilliantly against the Scots, with statistics showing he executed\u00a017 tackles and won four lineouts.<\/p>\n<p>And after Saturday&#8217;s\u00a0Triple Crown triumph, a thrilled\u00a0Tadhg posed for precious photographs with his wife Harriet Fuller and daughter Penelope, along with the coveted trophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/news\/home\/865197\/beirne-and-treadwell-bring-longford-flavour-to-nz-wins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #008000;\">Beirne and Treadwell bring Longford flavour to NZ wins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/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":"Longford rugby fans are celebrating the Triple Crown success of the national team, with a particular pride in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46328,159827,42,3181,159826,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-351150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ardagh","tag-ardagh-moydow","tag-headlines","tag-longford","tag-longford-rugby-club","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351150","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=351150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}