{"id":482512,"date":"2026-06-04T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482512\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:21:08","slug":"kildares-boland-shines-for-ireland-u16s-in-finland-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482512\/","title":{"rendered":"Kildare&#8217;s Boland shines for Ireland U16s in Finland &#8211; Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Kildare&#8217;s Ruby Boland played a starring role as Ireland U16s won all three games at the recent 2026 UEFA Development Tournament in Finland. It was an impressive clean sweep for James Scott&#8217;s starlets as the enjoyed three wins in Ereekilla this week. The Irish team have been a fiormmidable force in 2026 and came into this tournament unbeaten in the previous two International camps against Portugal and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The tournament favourites were the hosts Finland and Irelands first opponents, a physical encounters that saw Ireland dismantle their attacks in a bruising manner, eventually winning 3-1 with Boland&#8217;s performance in defence drawing rave reviews.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boland, the Shamrock Rovers star, is having a great season with the u17 league of Ireland table toppers and has also been a flagstone in defense for their u23 side as they push to secure title play offs. Ruby is fast becoming one of the country&#8217;s strongest defensive prospects to strive for a career in soccer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">James Scott and the management team had reason to celebrate a wonderful tournament as the girls in green went on to beat Iceland 3-0 and Hungary 4-1, with Boland featuring in both, and sealing victory in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Preparations will now turn to securing qualification for EUR0 2027 in the matches that will be played later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kildare&#8217;s Ruby Boland played a starring role as Ireland U16s won all three games at the recent 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-482512","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\/482512","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=482512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}