{"id":174308,"date":"2025-11-11T03:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:58:15","slug":"all-the-young-people-in-the-club-look-up-to-johnny-kennys-form-warrants-ireland-debut-as-brothers-enjoy-gaa-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174308\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All the young people in the club look up to Johnny\u2019 \u2013 Kenny\u2019s form warrants Ireland debut as brothers enjoy GAA success"},"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\">With a father who achieved legendary status in Sligo, the 22-year-old Celtic striker and his siblings are making a name for themselves in the sporting world\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johnny Kenny after scoring for Celtic in Sunday's win over Kilmarnock \u2013 his fourth goal in as many matches; Johnny Kenny Snr in action for Sligo in 1995; Kenny Jnr on international duty in September Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6a27b3e3-24e9-4b44-8eb0-7b17026ee892.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)\">Johnny Kenny after scoring for Celtic in Sunday&#8217;s win over Kilmarnock \u2013 his fourth goal in as many matches; Johnny Kenny Snr in action for Sligo in 1995; Kenny Jnr on international duty in September Photo: Getty<\/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)\">It has been an eventful few weeks for the Kenny family, and it could be about to get even better.<\/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)\">Johnny has played a leading role for Celtic since Martin O\u2019Neill\u2019s return to the club, producing two poacher\u2019s finishes against Falkirk, before scoring in an Old Firm derby for the first time four days later as the Hoops booked their place in the Scottish League Cup final after extra-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a father who achieved legendary status in Sligo, the 22-year-old Celtic striker and his siblings are making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1187,18,17065,19,17,19864,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-174308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-celtic-fc","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sligo-rovers","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174308","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=174308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}