{"id":382702,"date":"2026-04-05T05:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:20:13","slug":"watch-instant-joy-for-mason-melia-and-owen-elding-as-rising-stars-enjoy-productive-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382702\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Instant joy for Mason Melia and Owen Elding as rising stars enjoy productive Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Instant impact from Melia as he comes off the bench for Spurs junior side\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mason Melia joined Tottenham from St Patrick's Athletic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7f262cd5-c30d-47a5-8101-893bc0c0f81c.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)\">Mason Melia joined Tottenham from St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic<\/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)\">Winter League of Ireland exports Mason Melia and Owen Elding made rapid fire contributions for their new clubs on Saturday, with Melia scoring three minutes into his first appearance for the Tottenham Hotspur U-21 side and Elding breaking the deadlock for Hibs just 15 seconds into their Scottish top flight win over Kilmarnock.<\/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)\">Melia has been minded by Spurs since his \u20ac1.8m winter move from St Patrick\u2019s Athletic due to a back injury and an infection and he missed the Ireland U-21 double header with Moldova and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instant impact from Melia as he comes off the bench for Spurs junior side Mason Melia joined Tottenham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112,3568],"class_list":{"0":"post-382702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tottenham-hotspur"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382702","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=382702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}