{"id":665292,"date":"2025-12-31T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665292\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:24:09","slug":"rory-mcilroy-omission-from-new-year-honours-list-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665292\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy: Omission from New Year Honours list questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response to a direct question by Sky Sports about becoming &#8216;Sir Rory McIlroy&#8217; one day, he said in November: &#8220;If that were ever to happen it would be an unbelievably massive honour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s obviously up to people a lot more powerful and important than me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, I mean, if it were to happen one day, it would be a very proud moment in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since not being included in the latest honours list, there has been no comment from McIlroy or anyone close to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is likely to be asked about the issue by the media in the new year, at his next tournament which may be the Dubai Invitational starting on 15 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the sportsmen and women recognised in the New Year honours were Olympic gold medalist Rhys McClenaghan from Newtownards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England women&#8217;s football coach Sarina Wiegman was made an honorary dame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Figure skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were given a damehood and knighthood respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response to a direct question by Sky Sports about becoming &#8216;Sir Rory McIlroy&#8217; one day, he said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-665292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115815819945867481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665292","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=665292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}