{"id":384434,"date":"2026-04-06T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384434\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:06:09","slug":"brilliant-bantry-crowned-all-ireland-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384434\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Bantry crowned All-Ireland champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">BANTRY Basketball Club\u2019s U14 girls have hit new heights, as the history-making trailblazers made club history by winning the All-Ireland Club Championship.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The most sought-after title in underage basketball is now resting in Bantry Bay after an incredible season from this unbeaten team.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Led by captain fantastic Emily O\u2019Neill, and coached by Niamh O\u2019Neill and Lorraine O\u2019Connor, Bantry girls proved they are the best in the land.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The girls were amongst Ireland&#8217;s top 25 teams in Gormanston Park where they showcased their unbelievable talent. In the group stages they overcame Clare Cobras, Northstar Warriors and Carrick Cruisers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4359596 js_lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brilliant-bantry-crowned-all-ireland-champions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1947\"\/> Captain Emily O\u2019Neill receives the cup from Daryl Lambe of Basketball Ireland. (Photo: Bill E Daly)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These wins earned Bantry their quarter-final spot in the Premier A Division, the pinnacle of U14 basketball.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a dominant quarter-final they eliminated Limerick Celtics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The semi-final was a close affair with Bantry pulling out all of the stops to overcome Dublin Lions by five points.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The final was an all-Munster affair as Bantry took on St Bridget\u2019s of Currow from Kerry. The two sides battled hard but brilliant Bantry proved too strong and took a famous 14-point win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANTRY Basketball Club\u2019s U14 girls have hit new heights, as the history-making trailblazers made club history by winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-384434","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\/384434","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=384434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}