{"id":373044,"date":"2026-01-16T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373044\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:54:14","slug":"cliftonville-football-club-in-for-the-kell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373044\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliftonville Football Club \u00bb In for the Kell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cliftonville Football Club are very pleased to announce the signing of Aidan Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old defender, another product of our Academy set-up, returns to Solitude following a successful student career in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>A former Cliftonville Olympic captain, Aidan enjoyed some first-team experience with the Reds in the summer of 2022 before embarking on a move to the University of Masachussetts Amherst, and also enjoyed a brief stint with Ballyclare Comrades during a temporary return home in the second half of last season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/match_derry110622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"330\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Jim Magilton\u2019s fourth signing of the January Transfer Window, Aidan \u2013 who, during his previous spell with the Club, also skippered the Northern Ireland Schoolboys Centenary Shield squad that featured fellow recent returnee Liam McStravick \u2013 will, subject to international clearance, be part of Cliftonville\u2019s panel for Saturday\u2019s Sports Direct Premiership fixture with Carrick Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cliftonville Football Club are very pleased to announce the signing of Aidan Kelly. The 22-year-old defender, another product&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-373044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}