{"id":555830,"date":"2026-07-18T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555830\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:10:08","slug":"its-really-taking-off-irelands-padel-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555830\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s really taking off&#8217; &#8211; Ireland&#8217;s padel boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of padel in Ireland continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Combining elements of tennis and squash, it&#8217;s thought there are now over 60,000 players across the country, with new facilities popping up almost every week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Padel Irish Open has been taking place in Templeogue in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our video to hear from players and spectators on why padel has become a smash hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The popularity of padel in Ireland continues to rise. Combining elements of tennis and squash, it&#8217;s thought there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-555830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555830","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=555830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}