{"id":359770,"date":"2026-03-22T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359770\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:19:08","slug":"letterkennys-ollie-worth-makes-ireland-u18-rugby-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359770\/","title":{"rendered":"Letterkenny&#8217;s Ollie Worth makes Ireland U18 rugby debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letterkenny lad Ollie Worth made his international rugby debut as the Irish U-18 Clubs &amp; Schools team took on Scotland\u2019s U18s this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie, pictured above on the right, is the son of Letterkenny couple Jeremy and Lucia Worth.<\/p>\n<p>A former Letterkenny Rugby Club underage prospect, Ollie has been making the next steps of his prospective rugby career playing for his school, the Kildare-based Clongowes Wood College.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby runs deep in the Worth family, as his older brother Charlie has also featured on the international stage for Ireland\u2019s Sevens team.<\/p>\n<p>The young outhalf was named on the substitutes\u2019 bench for this afternoon\u2019s game, but made a vital contribution to Ireland\u2019s effort \u2013 making the winning kick to give the boys in green a nailbiting 34-33 victory.<\/p>\n<p>A fine debut for a rising rugby prospect raised in the hills of Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>Letterkenny\u2019s Ollie Worth makes Ireland U18 rugby debut was last modified:  March 22nd, 2026 by Daniel Brennan<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letterkenny lad Ollie Worth made his international rugby debut as the Irish U-18 Clubs &amp; Schools team took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,162890,3654],"class_list":["post-359770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ollie-worth","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359770","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=359770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}