{"id":396884,"date":"2026-04-13T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396884\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:42:08","slug":"young-kilkenny-soccer-star-to-represent-ireland-at-barcelonas-nou-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396884\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Kilkenny soccer star to represent Ireland at Barcelona&#8217;s Nou Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory O\u2019Dowd, a second class pupil at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/669\/castlecomer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Castlecomer\u2019s<\/a> Scoil \u00cdosag\u00e1in, will realise a dream of every young football enthusiast when he represents Ireland in an under-nines international soccer tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held in Barcelona\u2019s Nou Camp Stadium over a four-day period from April 27th\u00a0to 30th, will see Ireland compete against teams from England, Scotland, Wales and Spain in a Five Nations tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Rory plays with \u2018Comer\u2019s Deen Celtic and Teaching Tekkers teams, where he is described as a \u2018strong defender and goal-scoring midfielder\u2019. Rory will be accompanied on his adventure by parents Audrey and Cathal, his sister Heidi and grandparents James Farrell and Michael O\u2019Dowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/189\/soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOR MORE KILKENNY SOCCER NEWS, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Texaco_Railway_Garage_Castlecomer_61-1774382889663.jpg---1776112510900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"514\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory O\u2019Dowd, a second class pupil at Castlecomer\u2019s Scoil \u00cdosag\u00e1in, will realise a dream of every young football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[175502,61,60,12969,43,33628],"class_list":["post-396884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-castlecomer","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-news","tag-north-kilkenny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396884","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=396884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}