{"id":294409,"date":"2025-07-26T22:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294409\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:47:14","slug":"northern-ireland-bowls-private-greens-league-retain-iba-under-25-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294409\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland bowls: Private Greens League retain IBA Under-25 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian Thompson of Ards sends his ball towards the jack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/725 Ards v Falls011.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)\">Brian Thompson of Ards sends his ball towards the jack<\/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)\">Private Greens League boss Gary McElroy hailed the performance of his young team after they retained the Irish Bowling Association\u2019s Under-25 Inter-Association Championship at Belmont.<\/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)\">A new format was used for the first time, with the three competing teams, the PGL, the Northern Ireland Bowling Association and the NI Provincial Bowling Association, going head-to-head over one day, as opposed to two, which was previously used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Thompson of Ards sends his ball towards the jack Private Greens League boss Gary McElroy hailed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-294409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114921973053905872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294409","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=294409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}