{"id":49472,"date":"2026-02-27T09:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/semi-finals-calling-for-1st-year-basketball-team\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:08:06","slug":"semi-finals-calling-for-1st-year-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/semi-finals-calling-for-1st-year-basketball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi Finals Calling for 1st Year Basketball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Huge congratulations to our First Year Basketball team on their quarter-final victory today against a strong Ballymckenny College, Drogheda side with a final score of 20-18\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"vertical-align:middle;padding-bottom:0px;width:16px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;height:16px;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#080809;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0px;\" src=\"<a href=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t57\/2\/16\/1f3c0.png\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t57\/2\/16\/1f3c0.png\"\"\/>https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t57\/2\/16\/1f3c0.png&#8221; alt=&#8221;1f3c0.png&#8221; \/><\/span><span style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0It was a closely fought game from start to finish!<\/span><br style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">A big thank you to Eve and Ciara (5th Years) for their help today, and a very special word of appreciation to our coaches Mr. McCormack and Mr. Lane for stepping in for Ms. Dignam. It\u2019s been a fantastic week for basketball in our school, with all Junior teams progressing to the semi-finals.<\/span><br style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Mercy Ab\u00fa!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"vertical-align:middle;padding-bottom:0px;width:16px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;height:16px;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#080809;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0px;\" src=\"<a href=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb\/2\/16\/1f499.png\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb\/2\/16\/1f499.png\"\"\/>https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb\/2\/16\/1f499.png&#8221; alt=&#8221;1f499.png&#8221; \/><\/span><br style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Missing from photo: Captain Cro\u00ed Traynor who played today.<\/span><span style=\"color:#080809;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<section data-featherlight-gallery='' data-featherlight-filter='a'>\n<div class='flex-container ie.uniquepublishing.notification.imagecontainer' style='display:flex;display:-webkit-flex;flex-direction: row;flex-wrap: wrap;justify-content: space-around;'><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge congratulations to our First Year Basketball team on their quarter-final victory today against a strong Ballymckenny College, Drogheda side with a final score of 20-18\u00a0Missing from photo: Captain Cro\u00ed Traynor who played today.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}