{"id":174796,"date":"2025-11-11T10:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174796\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:46:22","slug":"former-man-city-player-turned-award-winning-wexford-shopkeeper-it-was-difficult-going-from-kilmore-to-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174796\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Man City player turned award-winning Wexford shopkeeper \u2013 \u2018It was difficult going from Kilmore to Manchester\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\">Paul Murphy says that while community retail has its challenges it is a job he remains passionate about\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictured at the XL Retail Awards 2025 in Calpe, Spain were Paul Bealin, Cash &amp; Carry Sales Director, BWG Foods; Paul Murphy, XL Kilmore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8ec732ea-88a4-4318-b9d7-15d511444b6f.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)\">Pictured at the XL Retail Awards 2025 in Calpe, Spain were Paul Bealin, Cash &amp; Carry Sales Director, BWG Foods; Paul Murphy, XL Kilmore<\/p>\n<p>Wexford People<\/p>\n<p>Today at 07:40<\/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)\">A retired professional footballer from Wexford who played for Manchester City, before joining the family retail business, is celebrating after winning big at a national awards ceremony.<\/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)\">At the 2025 XL Retailer Awards, hosted in Calpe, Spain, two Wexford stores were honoured. Paul Murphy of XL Kilmore won Best Neighbourhood Newcomer, while Noel Doyle\u2019s XL Store in Wexford Town took home the award for Best-Food-To-Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Murphy says that while community retail has its challenges it is a job he remains passionate about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,4247,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-174796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cillian-boggan","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115530667486919104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174796","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=174796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}