{"id":404807,"date":"2026-04-18T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404807\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:30:09","slug":"amee-leigh-costigan-interview-you-adapt-your-life-and-being-able-to-do-it-while-growing-two-babies-its-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404807\/","title":{"rendered":"Amee-Leigh Costigan interview: \u2018You adapt your life. And being able to do it while growing two babies, it\u2019s a challenge\u2019"},"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\">\nIreland\u2019s first centrally-contracted player to become pregnant has \u2018twin\u2019 motivations as she aims to return to competitive rugby later this year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amee-Leigh Costigan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0eebdec8-e69d-42f2-9443-024f831ca41a.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)\">Amee-Leigh Costigan<\/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)\">Amee-Leigh Costigan decided to have a scan four months ago \u2013 not because she was feeling sick or unwell. It was quite the opposite, in fact.<\/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 Ireland winger was in the deep glow of the early stages of pregnancy with her and her husband Neil\u2019s first baby, and she was feeling better than expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s first centrally-contracted player to become pregnant has \u2018twin\u2019 motivations as she aims to return to competitive rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4173,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-404807","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-sinead-kissane","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404807","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=404807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}