{"id":582839,"date":"2026-08-04T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582839\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:02:10","slug":"everard-and-roy-added-to-irish-squad-for-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582839\/","title":{"rendered":"Everard and Roy added to Irish squad for Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiona Everard and Lauren Roy have been added to the Irish team for next week&#8217;s European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, but Rachel McCann now misses out.<\/p>\n<p>Bandon AC athlete Everard will compete in the women\u2019s 10,000m final on 14 August alongside fellow Irish athlete Niamh Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, of Fast Twitch AC, will take part in the women\u2019s 100m event while the Ballymena sprinter will also compete in the women\u2019s 200m and 4x100m relay events.<\/p>\n<p>There was bad news for McCann though as injury has forced her out of the women\u2019s 400m and 4x400m relay events.<\/p>\n<p>The championships take place at the Alexandra Stadium from 10-16 August and will see several international medallists including Kate O\u2019Connor, Mark English and Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght AC) don the green vest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/athletics\/2026\/0728\/1585490-mawdsley-named-in-irish-european-squad-after-injury-scare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharlene Mawdsley is selected in the women\u2019s 400m and 4x400m relay events<\/a>, but her participation is still uncertain after pulling up injured in the women\u2019s 200m national final at Santry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiona Everard and Lauren Roy have been added to the Irish team for next week&#8217;s European Athletics Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-582839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582839","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=582839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}