{"id":4889,"date":"2019-02-11T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:21:36","slug":"sophie-orourke-wins-irish-ladies-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/sophie-orourke-wins-irish-ladies-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie O&#8217;Rourke &#038; John Hurley take National titles:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual gathering of the country&#8217;s top squash players for The Irish Nationals took place in <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fitzwilliam.<\/span>\u00a0 Pride of place from a Munster perspective must go to <strong>Sophie O&#8217;Rourke<\/strong> and <strong>John Hurley<\/strong>. Sophie, at the ripe old age of 18, retained her Irish Women&#8217;s title and John Hurley came out on top in the O40 Men&#8217;s event. Among those Munster players who contested in the different events (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tournamentsoftware.com\/sport\/events.aspx?id=3393D20D-AEBA-4D40-A08F-980DE74D42A7\">see results and draws here<\/a>) were: Ladies A: Sophie O&#8217;Rourke; Men&#8217;s B: Se\u00e1n White; Men&#8217;s O35: Pat Morrissey, Gary Robinson, Ken O&#8217;Keeffe; Men&#8217;s O40: John Hurley, Kevin Knox and David Knox.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Picture shows from left: John Hurley (Men&#8217;s O40 winner); Niall Rooney (Men&#8217;s O35 winner) Sophie O&#8217;Rourke (Ladies Senior winner) and Arthur Gaskin (Men&#8217;s Senior winner).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual gathering of the country&#8217;s top squash players for The Irish Nationals took place in Fitzwilliam.\u00a0 Pride of place from a Munster perspective must go to Sophie O&#8217;Rourke and John Hurley. Sophie, at the ripe old age of 18, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/sophie-orourke-wins-irish-ladies-nationals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sophie O&#8217;Rourke &#038; John Hurley take National titles:<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,7,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juniors","category-ladies","category-masters","category-news","category-senior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}