{"id":19821,"date":"2025-08-24T07:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19821\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:44:11","slug":"grinds-school-backed-by-rugby-stars-and-love-hate-actor-made-e417000-loss-in-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19821\/","title":{"rendered":"Grinds school backed by rugby stars and \u2018Love\/Hate\u2019 actor made \u20ac417,000 loss in first year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Ireland rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/218a2a79-3f0e-40c8-bab6-bf50c2d68964.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)\">Former Ireland rugby captain Brian O&#8217;Driscoll. Photo: PA<\/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)\">The online secondary school grinds company backed by Brian O\u2019Driscoll and Ireland rugby captain Caelan Doris made a \u20ac417,844 loss in its first 13 months of business.<\/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)\">New accounts filed for the Grinds 360 firm show that it paid over \u20ac1m for services provided by firms owned by Brendan Kavanagh, the Wicklow businessman who is a co-founder of the grinds company. Kavanagh is an entrepreneur who has previously said he thinks university \u201cis for slow learners\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ireland rugby captain Brian O&#8217;Driscoll. Photo: PA The online secondary school grinds company backed by Brian O\u2019Driscoll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[17269,18,117,19,17,12861,5608],"class_list":{"0":"post-19821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brian-odriscoll","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leinster-rugby","14":"tag-mark-tighe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821","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=19821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}