{"id":384224,"date":"2026-04-06T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:30:10","slug":"plans-for-new-league-of-ireland-team-in-meath-to-be-revealed-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384224\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for new League of Ireland team in Meath to be revealed this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The aim is to kick off as an underage club with the target of transitioning to League of Ireland level in the early to mid 2030s. Photo: Michael P Ryan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a9c851aa-789e-4b5f-bc32-b243fabdb21c.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)\">The aim is to kick off as an underage club with the target of transitioning to League of Ireland level in the early to mid 2030s. Photo: Michael P Ryan\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Plans to establish a League of Ireland team in Meath are set to take a formal step forward this week with the official launch of a project to introduce a national underage club for the county by 2027, and a longer-term vision of making it a senior club.<\/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)\">The Irish Independent understands that an announcement outlining the proposed direction for a club named Meath FC is imminent, although the FAI has yet to give the idea a formal green light to proceed. It\u2019s a concept that has been floated in recent years, with former FAI CEO Bernard O\u2019Byrne vocal on plans to establish a base in Athboy \u2013 with a working title of Royal Meath FC mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aim is to kick off as an underage club with the target of transitioning to League of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-384224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384224","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=384224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}