{"id":363657,"date":"2026-03-25T03:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:21:10","slug":"boyne-have-all-ireland-league-in-their-sights-as-they-take-on-munsters-finest-in-provincial-championship-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363657\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyne have All-Ireland League in their sights as they take on Munster\u2019s finest in Provincial Championship semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graeme McQuillan burst through a gap in the Tullow defence during Boyne's title-clinching win on the final day of the Leinster League Division 1A season. Picture: Paul Connor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ff1806de-82be-4195-81fb-ea79c206d1fb.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)\">Graeme McQuillan burst through a gap in the Tullow defence during Boyne&#8217;s title-clinching win on the final day of the Leinster League Division 1A season. Picture: Paul Connor<\/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)\">New Zealand-born head coach Craig McGrath famously steered Boyne to the All-Ireland League for the first time back in 2011 and now they stand just two games away from a return to the promised land.<\/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)\">Back-to-back Leinster 1B and 1A titles have catapulted the Drogheda club into the All-Ireland Provincial League Championship and Kevin McCleery\u2019s charges have been drawn against Munster League champions Kilfeacle and District in the first of a double-header of semi-finals hosted by the Mullingar club this coming Saturday (kick-off 1pm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graeme McQuillan burst through a gap in the Tullow defence during Boyne&#8217;s title-clinching win on the final day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-363657","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\/363657","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=363657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}