{"id":44494,"date":"2025-09-05T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:55:11","slug":"carlow-gaas-loss-has-been-irish-rugbys-gain-out-half-dannah-obriens-talent-was-obvious-to-all-who-coached-her-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44494\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlow GAA\u2019s loss has been Irish rugby\u2019s gain \u2013 out-half Dannah O\u2019Brien\u2019s talent was obvious to all who coached her growing up"},"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\">Rugby star was \u2018privilege to coach\u2019 as a ladies footballer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland out-half and Carlow footballer Dannah O'Brien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/26137f37-1afd-4219-ab8f-1448d35d61c8.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)\">Ireland out-half and Carlow footballer Dannah O&#8217;Brien<\/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)\">Lorcan O\u2019Toole remembers a particular game during Dannah O\u2019Brien\u2019s ladies football career for St Anne\u2019s in Carlow where he and his selectors \u201cwere looking at each other on the sideline saying, how did she even come up with that?\u201d<\/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)\">St Anne\u2019s were bidding to win their first minor championship final but faced a gale-force wind in the second half of a game that was played in the depths of winter. It was one of those days when kicking points against the elements was close to impossible with some of their earlier efforts \u201cbeing blown to the corner flag\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby star was \u2018privilege to coach\u2019 as a ladies footballer Ireland out-half and Carlow footballer Dannah O&#8217;Brien Lorcan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18062,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-44494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-carlow-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44494","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=44494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}