{"id":24156,"date":"2012-03-21T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=24156"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:29:01","slug":"ireland-schools-squad-announced-for-european-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ireland-schools-squad-announced-for-european-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Schools Squad Announced For European Championship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Thanks TO Greers Of Antrim Volvo Dealership For Sponsoring This Section Click Here<br \/>\nThe Ireland U-18 Schools Squad, sponsored by PWC, has been named for the upcoming European U-18 Championship in Spain (March 29th to April 8th)<\/p>\n<p>The Ireland U-18 Schools will warm up for their defence of the FIRA\/AER European title with a pre tournament friendly against Scotland in Coolmine RFC on Sunday, March 25th, k.o. 12 noon.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Justin Bridou U-18 European Championship takes place in Spain with Ireland drawn in the Elite group alongside England, Wales, France, Scotland, Italy, Georgia and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland won the tournament in France last year for the first time having previously reached two finals with the U-18 Club team.<\/p>\n<p>The U-18 Schools, who beat a fancied England team by 17 \u2013 8 to take the title in 2011, will play Portugal in Ciudad Universitaria in Madrid in their opening game on March 30th. The winner will progress to a semi final where they will face either France or Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Terry McMaster will coach the 26 man squad with the assistance of Paul Barr and Kenny Hooks.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland U-18 Schools Squad (FIRA\/AER U-18 European Championship, Madrid, March 29- April 8th)<\/p>\n<p>Max  Abbott (PBC Cork\/ Munster)<br \/>\nBenjamin Alexander (RBAI\/ Ulster)<br \/>\nShane  Boyle (Sligo GS\/ Connacht)<br \/>\nHarrison Brewer (Terenure College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nWilliam Dardis (Terenure College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nShane Delahunt (Kilkenny College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nDylan  Donnellan (Clongowes Wood College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nJosh Fullerton (CCB\/ Ulster)<br \/>\nBobby Holland (St. Michaels College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nDavid  Johnston (Rockwell College\/ Munster)<br \/>\nCian Kellerher (St. Michaels College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nDaniel Leavy (St. Michaels College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nGearoid  Lyons (Crescent College\/ Munster)<br \/>\nRory Maloney (CC Roscrea\/ Connacht)<br \/>\nEoghan McKeever (CBC Monkstown\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nConor  McKeon (Gonzaga\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nSaba  Meunargia (Marist College\/ Connacht)<br \/>\nRoss Molony (St. Michaels College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nSean  O\u2019Brien (CC Roscrea\/ Connacht)<br \/>\nCormac  O\u2019Donnell (St Munchins\/ Munster)<br \/>\nRuairi O\u2019Farrell (Blackrock College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nJack  O\u2019Neill (Castleknock College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nGregory O\u2019Shea (Crescent College\/ Munster)<br \/>\nRory O&#8217;Loughlin (St. Michaels College\/ Leinster)<br \/>\nCharlie  Slowey (CBC Cork\/ Munster)<br \/>\nPeadar Timmins (Clongowes Wood College\/ Leinster)<\/p>\n<p>Ireland U-18 Schools Management<br \/>\nTerry McMaster &#8211; Head Coach<br \/>\nPaul Barr &#8211; Assistant Coach<br \/>\nKenny Hooks &#8211; Assistant Coach<br \/>\nJohn McKinney &#8211; Team Manager<br \/>\nChris Shield &#8211; Fitness Coach<br \/>\nOzzie Fogarty &#8211; Team Doctor<br \/>\nDavid Lyons &#8211; Team Physio<br \/>\nVinny Hammond &#8211; Team Analyst<br \/>\nNicola Lyons &#8211; Team Co-ordinator<br \/>\nJohn Moran &#8211; Team Assistant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Thanks TO Greers Of Antrim Volvo Dealership For Sponsoring This Section Click Here The Ireland U-18 Schools Squad, sponsored by PWC, has been named for the upcoming European U-18 Championship in Spain (March 29th to April 8th) The Ireland U-18 Schools will warm up for their defence of the FIRA\/AER European title with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5546,5294,7711,5770,4050,17213,5245],"class_list":["post-24156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-announced","tag-championship","tag-european","tag-for","tag-ireland","tag-schools","tag-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156","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=24156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683327,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions\/683327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}