{"id":143432,"date":"2025-10-24T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143432\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:38:12","slug":"pauline-mccarthy-66-on-her-secret-sauce-if-you-enjoy-it-and-you-dont-want-to-give-it-up-play-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143432\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline McCarthy (66) on her secret sauce: \u2018If you enjoy it \u2013 and you don\u2019t want to give it up \u2013 play on\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In the latest of our Vintage Veteran series, we talk to Limerick wonder woman on overcoming \u2018no dressing room, no toilets, no pitches\u2019 during her astonishing 50-year career in camogie and football\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pauline McCarthy from Limerick, who still plays camogie and football in her 60s for St Ailbe\u2019s, is preparing for today\u2019s Limerick junior \u2018A\u2019 camogie final against Mungret St Paul\u2019s.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07aef680-1fd3-44c3-91b0-f4434007ed55.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pauline McCarthy from Limerick, who still plays camogie and football in her 60s for St Ailbe\u2019s, is preparing for today\u2019s Limerick junior \u2018A\u2019 camogie final against Mungret St Paul\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pauline McCarthy would prefer to be anywhere but the national spotlight but when you\u2019re still doing your thing on the pitch at the age of 66, there\u2019s bound to be a bit of a hullabaloo about you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">McCarthy made her senior debut at club level at 14 \u2013 as well as her first senior camogie appearance for Limerick \u2013 and here she is still going strong in both codes over half a century later, even if she doesn\u2019t get all of the fuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest of our Vintage Veteran series, we talk to Limerick wonder woman on overcoming \u2018no dressing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[84804,61656,18,19,17,41875,13889,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-143432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-all-ireland-senior-camogie-championship","9":"tag-camogie-association","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lgfa","14":"tag-limerick-gaa","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115431073869881062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}