{"id":503627,"date":"2026-06-17T03:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503627\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:18:11","slug":"one-individual-rider-to-represent-ireland-at-2026-european-junior-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503627\/","title":{"rendered":"One Individual Rider to Represent Ireland at 2026 European Junior Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horse Sport Ireland has announced that one individual will represent Ireland at the 2026 European Junior Riders Championships in Olomouc (CZE).<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of individual representation and no full team comes in a week of much\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurodressage.com\/2026\/06\/11\/dressage-ireland-and-horse-sport-ireland-disagree-team-selection-2026-european-junior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">commotion<\/a> over Irish team selection. Yesterday Dressage Ireland announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/eurodressage.com\/2026\/06\/15\/dressage-ireland-has-change-chairs-ruddock-out-adrain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resignation<\/a> of the Dressage Ireland chair and appointment of a new chair on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Maeve Deverell has been selected.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a second European Championship appearance for the Offaly teenager, who competed in the Children on Horses European Championship for Ireland in 2023 with homebred 13-year-old Annaharvey Dunowen (ISH).<\/p>\n<p>She will again partner Annaharvey Dunowen, bred in Tullamore, Co. Offaly by her grandfather Henry, having impressed this season with her consistent results, highlighted by a third-place finish at Hartpury.<\/p>\n<p>Horse Sport Ireland High Performance Dressage Manager, Anne Marie Dunphy, said: \u201cI\u2019m very pleased that Maeve will represent us in Olomouc. During the selection period they have shown consistent results including a podium finish at Hartpury CDI and we look forward to seeing them taking their place at the championships.<\/p>\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Astrid Appels<\/p>\n<p>Related Links<br \/>Eurodressage Coverage of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurodressage.com\/2026\/06\/01\/2026-european-children-and-junior-riders-championships-table-contents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 European Children and Junior Riders Championships<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodressage.com\/2026\/06\/15\/dressage-ireland-has-change-chairs-ruddock-out-adrain\" hreflang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dressage Ireland Has a Change of Chairs: Ruddock Out, Adrain In<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodressage.com\/2026\/06\/11\/dressage-ireland-and-horse-sport-ireland-disagree-team-selection-2026-european-junior\" hreflang=\"en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dressage Ireland and Horse Sport Ireland Disagree on Team Selection for 2026 European Junior Championships<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horse Sport Ireland has announced that one individual will represent Ireland at the 2026 European Junior Riders Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,215363],"class_list":["post-503627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-one-individual-rider-to-represent-ireland-at-2026-european-junior-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503627","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=503627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}