{"id":209784,"date":"2025-06-24T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209784\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:26:11","slug":"padel-northern-ireland-locations-of-new-courts-set-to-open-in-belfast-coleraine-londonderry-and-more-as-entrepreneurs-see-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209784\/","title":{"rendered":"Padel Northern Ireland: Locations of new courts set to open in Belfast, Coleraine, Londonderry and more as entrepreneurs see chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>revealed\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWith business opportunities for the relatively new game growing here, and two new venues opening this week in Carryduff and Ballyclare, entrepreneurs tell how football, rugby and GAA players are their target market\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Padel is still a relatively new sport in Northern Ireland, but Pete Boyle (top) of Let's Go Padel and Elliott McKee and Simon Moutray of Powerhouse Padel, are getting in on the action\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8cd2cf0f-29aa-45d8-9f5f-fed2029f7813.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Padel is still a relatively new sport in Northern Ireland, but Pete Boyle (top) of Let&#8217;s Go Padel and Elliott McKee and Simon Moutray of Powerhouse Padel, are getting in on the action<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This year is set to be a landmark one for the sport and business of padel in Northern Ireland, with as many as 100 courts set to be opened by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Padel is a racket sport played on a small, enclosed court that looks similar to a cut-down tennis court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"revealed\u00a0|\u00a0 With business opportunities for the relatively new game growing here, and two new venues opening this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,2378,1817,9085,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-derry-news","11":"tag-james-mcnaney","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114737157705679352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}