{"id":413066,"date":"2026-04-23T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413066\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:18:11","slug":"ireland-rugby-star-robbie-henshaw-on-the-value-of-taking-the-less-traditional-route-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413066\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland rugby star Robbie Henshaw on the value of taking the less traditional route to success"},"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\">The Leinster player says playing Gaelic football and rugby while in school has stood to him\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robbie Henshaw pictured in McCauley Pharmacy in Redmond Square on Tuesday afternoon. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/74527aaf-067d-4086-b5d5-cd0fb677eee3.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)\">Robbie Henshaw pictured in McCauley Pharmacy in Redmond Square on Tuesday afternoon. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/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)\">Robbie Henshaw is not your stereotypical Leinster and Ireland rugby star. While trends are changing, the main route for success on the playing fields in the province remains with fee-paying schools. <\/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)\">But for Henshaw, the accomplished accordian player with a solid GAA background, the question whether he should consider transferring from Marist College in Athlone to a heavy hitting rugby school like Clongowes or Blackrock was never on the cards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leinster player says playing Gaelic football and rugby while in school has stood to him Robbie Henshaw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3502,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-413066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cillian-boggan","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413066","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=413066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}