{"id":379327,"date":"2025-08-28T03:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379327\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:43:11","slug":"odhran-mchugh-nets-hat-trick-for-northern-ireland-u-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379327\/","title":{"rendered":"Odhran McHugh nets hat-trick for Northern Ireland U-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odhran McHugh hit a hat-trick for Northern Ireland Under-16s in their win over Gibraltar in the Gary Speed Cup on Tuesday in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The Finn Harps striker, who has been in blistering form for the club in the League of Ireland MU15 Tier 2 North, and he has kept it up at international level for the Northern Irish underage side.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland won their first game of the competition 8-0 against Gibraltar, with McHugh coming on for the second half as he hit a hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/soccer\/1880114\/hannah-hopkins-stars-as-bonagee-united-crowned-donegal-womens-league-champions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hannah Hopkins stars as Bonagee United crowned Donegal Women\u2019s League champions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Son of Finn Harps boss Kevin, McHugh hit the fifth, seventh, and eighth goals in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland face Japan in their next game on Thursday morning at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Odhran McHugh hit a hat-trick for Northern Ireland Under-16s in their win over Gibraltar in the Gary Speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[43187,132150,132151,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-donegal","9":"tag-finn-harps","10":"tag-league-of-ireland","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115104331088288522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379327","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=379327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}