{"id":75631,"date":"2014-11-05T23:35:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T23:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=75631"},"modified":"2014-11-05T23:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T23:37:33","slug":"rugby-road-rio-armagh-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/rugby-road-rio-armagh-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby \u2018Road to Rio\u2019 for Armagh star Caroline O&#8217;Hanlon Armagh GAA Captain by IRFU for Olympic Games 7s Rugby 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARMAGH gaelic captain Caroline O&#8217;Hanlon could be poised for a sensational switch to rugby sevens to pursue the dream of competing for Ireland in the 2016 Rio Olympics.<br \/>\nThe Irish Rugby Football Union has identified the multi-talented O&#8217;Hanlon, who doubles up as a world-class netballer, as a top target to head-hunt for their women&#8217;s sevens Olympic programme.<br \/>\nWith a multi-million euro support programme in place, the IRFU has significant financial clout to attract top players from other sports along with the alluring prospect of competing in the Olympics.<br \/>\nThe man who heads up the programme, former Ulster star Stan McDowell, has told the Gazette that the 30-year-old O&#8217;Hanlon &#8220;is a sportswoman we would love the chance to work with.&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. see more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulstergazette.co.uk\/articles\/sports\/42765\/rugby-road-to-rio-for-armagh-star\/\">http:\/\/www.ulstergazette.co.uk\/articles\/sports\/42765\/rugby-road-to-rio-for-armagh-star\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARMAGH gaelic captain Caroline O&#8217;Hanlon could be poised for a sensational switch to rugby sevens to pursue the dream of competing for Ireland in the 2016 Rio Olympics. The Irish Rugby Football Union has identified the multi-talented O&#8217;Hanlon, who doubles up as a world-class netballer, as a top target to head-hunt for their women&#8217;s sevens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17191,5770,7386,5782,3959,6695],"class_list":["post-75631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armagh","tag-armagh","tag-for","tag-rio","tag-road","tag-rugby","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75631","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=75631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75634,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75631\/revisions\/75634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}