{"id":540613,"date":"2026-07-09T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/540613\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:42:15","slug":"green-fingered-cork-siblings-are-woodies-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/540613\/","title":{"rendered":"Green-fingered Cork siblings are Woodie\u2019s winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Cork Siblings Fiadh and Ois\u00edn Murphy have been crowned as runners-up in this year\u2019s Woodie\u2019s Budding Gardeners Competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Now in its sixth year, the competition aims to encourage children across Ireland to \u2018flex their green fingers\u2019 by taking on an exciting garden project at home or in school, learning about the importance of plants along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Woodie\u2019s garden expert and judge of the competition, Brian Burke, selected Fiadh Murphy, 6, and Ois\u00edn Murphy, 7, from Rathpeacon as runners-up for their project, \u2018Bee\u2019s Boots\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The brother-and-sister duo took home a \u20ac500 Woodie\u2019s gift card as a result of their second-place award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr Burke said selecting a winner for this year\u2019s competition was \u201cone of the most challenging tasks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWe received submissions from all over the country, including some wonderfully inventive and eye-catching homemade pots,\u201d said Mr Burke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cA huge well done to everyone who entered, but congratulations to our runners-up Fiadh and Ois\u00edn from Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cYour enthusiasm and creativity have been inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork Siblings Fiadh and Ois\u00edn Murphy have been crowned as runners-up in this year\u2019s Woodie\u2019s Budding Gardeners Competition.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4257,79,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-540613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540613","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=540613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}