{"id":632293,"date":"2026-09-22T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632293\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:06:11","slug":"laois-man-set-to-represent-ireland-in-worldskills-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632293\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois Man Set To Represent Ireland In WorldSkills Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 22 September 2026 08:00\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab226cdd09bf879496.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo credit: LinkedIn\/Ru\u00e1n Murgatroyd<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            23-year-old Ru\u00e1n Murgatroyd from Portarlington wll compete  in Cloud Computing.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Laois man is set to represent Ireland at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 this week.<\/p>\n<p>23-year-old Ru\u00e1n Murgatroyd from Portarlington is one of 16 young Irish competitors selected to compete for Team Ireland at the prestigious international event, alongside more than 1,400 competitors representing over 70 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Ru\u00e1n is set to compete in Cloud Computing.<\/p>\n<p>The event often referred to as the \u2018Skills Olympics\u2019 taking place from today right up until this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 22 September 2026 08:00 Photo credit: LinkedIn\/Ru\u00e1n Murgatroyd 23-year-old Ru\u00e1n Murgatroyd from Portarlington wll compete in Cloud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-632293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632293","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=632293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}