{"id":46270,"date":"2025-09-27T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46270\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:08:18","slug":"it-was-just-really-really-special-to-be-there-meabh-de-burca-on-her-ladies-football-journey-and-2011-all-ireland-final-at-croke-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46270\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was just really, really special to be there\u2019 \u2013 M\u00e9abh De B\u00farca on her Ladies Football journey and 2011 All-Ireland final at Croke Park"},"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\">Former Ireland soccer international enjoying her football with Salthill\/Knocknacarra and treasures 2011 experience with New York\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meabh De Burca in actin for New York against Niamh Kelly of Wicklow during the 2011 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Junior Football Championship final at Croke Park, Dublin. Photo: Brian Lawless\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Me\u0301abh de Bu\u0301rca  2.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)\">Meabh De Burca in actin for New York against Niamh Kelly of Wicklow during the 2011 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Junior Football Championship final at Croke Park, Dublin. Photo: Brian Lawless\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">While injury has kept her out of action in recent weeks, former Ireland women\u2019s soccer international M\u00e9abh De B\u00farca has enjoyed being part of the continued development of Salthill\/Knocknacarra in the past couple of years.<\/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)\">Having previously lined out for St Michael\u2019s and Salthill at underage level in Galway, De B\u00farca later found herself returning to the former due to the latter not having a team that catered for female adult players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ireland soccer international enjoying her football with Salthill\/Knocknacarra and treasures 2011 experience with New York Meabh De&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30883,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-46270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-galway-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46270","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=46270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}