{"id":458710,"date":"2025-09-28T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458710\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:38:17","slug":"odhran-mchugh-and-lukas-doherty-net-for-northern-ireland-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458710\/","title":{"rendered":"Odhran McHugh and Lukas Doherty net for Northern Ireland Under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal and Finn Harps duo Odhran McHugh and Lukas Doherty were on the scoresheet as Northern Ireland Under-16s concluded their Four Nations campaign with a win over Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>The Four Nations Tournament featured Finland, Iceland, Estonia and Northern Ireland, held over the past week at the Eerikkil\u00e4 Sport and Outdoor Resort in southern Finland.<\/p>\n<p>And it was the hosts who took an opening win over Northern Ireland, winning 5-2 on Tuesday as Kosmo Launiala hit four goals.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh, from St Johnston, started that game, with Newtowncunningham native Doherty on the bench, but the roles were reversed on Wednesday as coach Kris Lindsay named a completely different team from that defeat as they took on Iceland, but again they fell to a late 3-2 defeat with the last kick of the game.<\/p>\n<p>But the pair started their final match and both were on the scoresheet in the win over Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Jamie O\u2019Donnell was in action for the Republic of Ireland Under-16s for two games against Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Donohue\u2019s side won the first game against the hosts 1-0 on Monday in \u017bary, but they were defeated 3-2 in the second encounter at Szprotawa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Buncrana man O\u2019Donnell, who plays for Derry City underage, signing for the Candystripes last year from Cockhill Celtic, started the second game, playing an hour.<\/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":"Donegal and Finn Harps duo Odhran McHugh and Lukas Doherty were on the scoresheet as Northern Ireland Under-16s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[132150,153717,1144,153716,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-458710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-finn-harps","9":"tag-newtowncunningham","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-st-johnston","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115283853659651846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458710","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=458710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}