{"id":36669,"date":"2025-04-20T21:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36669\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:59:30","slug":"the-masters-golf-rory-mcilroy-must-now-be-northern-irelands-greatest-ever-sportsperson-says-carl-frampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36669\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters golf: Rory McIlroy must now be Northern Ireland&#8217;s greatest ever sportsperson, says Carl Frampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy won the Masters in Augusta last Sunday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Carl_Frampton (2).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)\">Rory McIlroy won the Masters in Augusta last Sunday<\/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)\">When it comes to the best sportsperson ever to come from Northern Ireland or the island as a whole, Rory McIlroy must now be right at the top following his Masters win last week.<\/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)\">Sunday night was the most riveting TV I\u2019ve watched in a long time. In a way, the manner of the win made it even more special as had he won at a canter it may not have had quite the same effect, although I\u2019m sure he would have been more than happy to have finished the job in far less dramatic style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy won the Masters in Augusta last Sunday When it comes to the best sportsperson ever to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[21104,21105,8540,1144,4287,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-36669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-carl-frampton-mbe","9":"tag-down-sport","10":"tag-north-belfast-sport","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114372540105406090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36669","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=36669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}