{"id":363118,"date":"2026-03-24T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:07:10","slug":"all-ireland-winning-muckalee-saluted-by-kilkenny-county-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363118\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland winning Muckalee saluted by Kilkenny County Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All-Ireland Junior Ladies Football champions Muckalee were saluted at County Hall last night, where they were afforded a Civic Reception by Council Cathaoirleach Mary Hilda Kavanagh.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, the North Kilkenny club claimed their first All-Ireland title in dramatic circumstances, defeating Cromane of Kerry thanks to Katie Nolan\u2019s last gasp free.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kclr96fm.com\/muckalee-are-celebrating-a-first-ever-aib-lgfa-all-ireland-title-following-a-one-point-win-over-cromane-of-kerry-at-parnell-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muckalee are celebrating a first ever AIB LGFA All-Ireland title\u00a0following a one point win over Cromane of Kerry at Parnell Park.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cllr Kavanagh congratulated the players and management on their historic success and said the trailblazing group were role models for Kilkenny\u2019s young sportswomen as well as the wider community.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to KCLR News, Muckalee player Cora Dooley said such recognition wasn\u2019t lost on the panel while team manager Pat McDowell (dubbed \u2018Mr Motivator\u2019 by local Councillor Pat Fitzpatrick) said his side\u2019s magnificent success had shortened the winter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-318378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MuckaleePic2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-318379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MuckaleePic3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1094\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Junior Ladies Football champions Muckalee were saluted at County Hall last night, where they were afforded a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-363118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363118","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=363118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}