{"id":416585,"date":"2026-04-25T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:06:10","slug":"age-should-never-be-a-barrier-retired-wexford-principal-on-winning-gold-for-ireland-in-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416585\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Age should never be a barrier\u2019 \u2013 Retired Wexford principal on winning gold for Ireland in running"},"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\">Siobh\u00e1n Doyle was part of a 150 strong Irish team who travelled to Poland for the European Masters Athletics Championships\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Siobh\u00e1n Doyle pictured receiving a presentation from her club Menapians. Picture: Menapians.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5625efef-253a-4729-8e7f-0ef5254a020e.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)\">Siobh\u00e1n Doyle pictured receiving a presentation from her club Menapians. Picture: Menapians.<\/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)\">A trailblazing, retired Wexford primary school principal who has represented Ireland on the international athletics stage is reflecting this week on winning gold at the European Masters Athletics Championships in Poland.<\/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)\">Siobh\u00e1n Doyle, a 65-year-old Kerry native, had a long and successful career teaching career which culminated in her leading Galbally NS as principal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Siobh\u00e1n Doyle was part of a 150 strong Irish team who travelled to Poland for the European Masters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3502,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-416585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cillian-boggan","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416585","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=416585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}