{"id":47089,"date":"2025-09-27T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47089\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:39:12","slug":"odhran-mchugh-and-lukas-doherty-net-for-northern-ireland-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47089\/","title":{"rendered":"Odhran McHugh and Lukas Doherty net for Northern Ireland Under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal and Finn Harps duo Odhran McHugh and Lukas Doherty were on the scoresheet as Northern Ireland Under-16s concluded their Four Nations campaign with a win over Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>The Four Nations Tournament featured Finland, Iceland, Estonia and Northern Ireland, held over the past week at the Eerikkil\u00e4 Sport and Outdoor Resort in southern Finland.<\/p>\n<p>And it was the hosts who took an opening win over Northern Ireland, winning 5-2 on Tuesday as Kosmo Launiala hit four goals.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh, from St Johnston, started that game, with Newtowncunningham native Doherty on the bench, but the roles were reversed on Wednesday as coach Kris Lindsay named a completely different team from that defeat as they took on Iceland, but again they fell to a late 3-2 defeat with the last kick of the game.<\/p>\n<p>But the pair started their final match and both were on the scoresheet in the win over Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Jamie O\u2019Donnell was in action for the Republic of Ireland Under-16s for two games against Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Donohue\u2019s side won the first game against the hosts 1-0 on Monday in \u017bary, but they were defeated 3-2 in the second encounter at Szprotawa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Buncrana man O\u2019Donnell, who plays for Derry City underage, signing for the Candystripes last year from Cockhill Celtic, started the second game, playing an hour.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal and Finn Harps duo Odhran McHugh and Lukas Doherty were on the scoresheet as Northern Ireland Under-16s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14642,61,60,43,34619,34618],"class_list":{"0":"post-47089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-finn-harps","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newtowncunningham","13":"tag-st-johnston"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47089","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=47089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}