{"id":21337,"date":"2012-01-26T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=21337"},"modified":"2012-01-26T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:34:02","slug":"electric-ireland-set-to-energise-under-20%e2%80%99s-six-nations-home-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/electric-ireland-set-to-energise-under-20%e2%80%99s-six-nations-home-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland set to energise Under-20\u2019s Six Nations Home Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventh season of Electric Ireland support for Buccaneer\u2019s staging of home games<\/p>\n<p>Athlone, Wednesday 25th January: Electric Ireland today announced their continued support for Buccaneers Rugby Football Club\u2019s staging of the upcoming U-20 Six Nations Championship home games in Dubarry Park, Athlone.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh year that Electric Ireland (previously as ESB) has sponsored the hosting of Ireland\u2019s home games at the Athlone stadium in association with Buccaneers.  At today\u2019s announcement were Irish U20 Internationals, Daniel Qualter (buccaneers\/connacht), Patrick Jackson (Dungannon\/Ulster), JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemian\/Munster) and Conor Gilsenan (UCD\/Leinster).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ireland-u20-xv-electric-ireland1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ireland-u20-xv-electric-ireland1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ireland u20 xv electric ireland\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21341\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nElectric Ireland Commercial Manager Ken McKervey said Electric Ireland was delighted to continue the tradition of supporting the home showcase of the best of the emerging young talent in Irish Rugby \u201cWe have enjoyed a long and successful partnership with the home series, and are delighted to be continuing our involvement in 2012. In the past we have been treated to some outstanding encounters in Athlone, and certainly we are looking forward to three very competitive home games this year against Wales, Italy and Scotland.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosportsdirect.com\/index.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9533\" title=\"Click Here For Eurosports Direct E-Commerce Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/euro.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWelcoming the continued support Electric Ireland sponsorship of the Athlone hosting brings, Buccaneers RFC President Ted Carty acknowledged the support of the IRFU in bringing prestigious international fixtures to the heartland of the country. He expressed his delight at so many young Buccaneers being involved with the squad with six taking part in recent trial games.  <\/p>\n<p>Ireland will be coached again this year by Mike Ruddock, but will have a new team manager in Brian Roantree. <\/p>\n<p>Ireland will play three home matches in Athlone against Wales February 3rd, Italy February 24th and Scotland March 9th.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these games will also be televised on RTE 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventh season of Electric Ireland support for Buccaneer\u2019s staging of home games Athlone, Wednesday 25th January: Electric Ireland today announced their continued support for Buccaneers Rugby Football Club\u2019s staging of the upcoming U-20 Six Nations Championship home games in Dubarry Park, Athlone. This is the seventh year that Electric Ireland (previously as ESB) has sponsored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8655,8653,8654,6468,4050,7218,5986,7602,5626],"class_list":["post-21337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-20s","tag-electric","tag-energise","tag-home","tag-ireland","tag-nations","tag-series","tag-six","tag-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21342,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337\/revisions\/21342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}