{"id":204736,"date":"2025-11-28T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:43:11","slug":"lads-could-very-easily-be-at-the-beach-instead-barcelona-gaels-earning-respect-on-their-leinster-club-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204736\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lads could very easily be at the beach instead\u2019 \u2013 Barcelona Gaels earning respect on their Leinster club journey"},"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\">The Catalan side, who have previously seen off Conahy Shamrocks and Ballinagore, are set for a provincial semi-final with Grangenolvin of Kildare this weekend\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barcelona Gaels celebrate after winning this year's European Championships against Amsterdam GAC in Rennes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/14269294-d902-4191-9a1d-1dbf364d960b.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)\">Barcelona Gaels celebrate after winning this year&#8217;s European Championships against Amsterdam GAC in Rennes<\/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 logistics may be \u201ca pain in the arse\u201d, but Barcelona Gaels are on a mission to prove worthy of their place in the Leinster Club JFC, and then some.<\/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)\">Barcelona may be more associated with the beautiful game and soccer icons like Lionel Messi and Brazil\u2019s Ronaldo, but the Catalan GAA club, one of the biggest of its kind in Europe, is already leaving a mark on these shores after big championship wins in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Catalan side, who have previously seen off Conahy Shamrocks and Ballinagore, are set for a provincial semi-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,886,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-204736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-michael-verney","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115627387064929239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204736","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=204736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}