{"id":430640,"date":"2026-05-03T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:32:10","slug":"ex-ireland-footballer-announces-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430640\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Ireland footballer announces engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Ireland international women&#8217;s footballer Olivia O&#8217;Toole has announced she is engaged.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary striker has been in a relationship with her long term partner Paula Hamilton for several years. The pair announced her happy news over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures on social media show Olivia showing off her diamond ring after the couple got engaged while on the <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/05\/02\/life-style\/five-of-the-best-walks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howth Cliff Walk<\/a>. The picture also shows the pair celebrating with a glass of champagne on the cliffs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ireland.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia O'Toole pictured with Paula Hamilton. Pic: Instagram\/Olivia O'Toole\" class=\"wp-image-2139378\"  \/>Olivia O&#8217;Toole pictured with Paula Hamilton. Pic: Instagram\/Olivia O&#8217;Toole<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Always and forever love doing life with you \u2764\ufe0f,&#8217; Olivia announced on social media on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the well wishes included champion boxer <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/01\/22\/entertainment\/kellie-harrington-family-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kellie Harrington<\/a> who wrote: &#8216;Ahhhh Ladies, massive congratulations to you both \ud83e\udef6 so happy for the two of you. Xxx.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Olivia.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia O'Toole announces engagement. Pic: Instagram\/Olivia O'Toole\" class=\"wp-image-2139379\"  \/>Olivia O&#8217;Toole announces engagement. Pic: Instagram\/Olivia O&#8217;Toole<\/p>\n<p>Olivia is widely regarded as one of Ireland&#8217;s greatest female footballers. A Dublin native from Sheriff Street, she has 130 international caps, is the second highest goalscorer ever for the Republic of Ireland women\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Ireland international women&#8217;s footballer Olivia O&#8217;Toole has announced she is engaged. The legendary striker has been in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-430640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430640","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=430640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}