{"id":8618,"date":"2013-04-30T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:15:50","slug":"this-sporting-life-ep-18-pitch-putt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8618","title":{"rendered":"This Sporting Life Ep 18 &#8211; Pitch &#038; Putt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pjawo8g0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8366\" alt=\"This Sporting Life\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pjawo8g0-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>This Sporting Life: The Story of Minority Sport in North Dublin<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong><\/strong><\/i><i>This Sporting Life<\/i>\u00a0is an upbeat and lively series of short documentaries which capture the excitement and dedication of minority sports people and encourages others to join in. Each programme serves as an introduction to a different minority sport\u00a0practiced\u00a0in\u00a0Northside\u00a0Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><b>18. Pitch &amp; Putt<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Portmarnock golf links is famous as one of the best golf courses in Ireland but Portmarnock is also home to another of the country\u2019s top courses at it\u2019s pitch and putt course, with greens that would be the envy of any club.<\/p>\n<p>We went along to Portmarnock Pitch and Putt Club on a wet Sunday morning just before Christmas to find out a bit about the sport and the club. We spoke \u00a0to chairman David Crum and met some of the members including Mary Lynch, Pearce Cromwell, Tom Duffy and Garry O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BAI-logo-mark-colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8367\" alt=\"BAI logo mark colour\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BAI-logo-mark-colour-215x300.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This series is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of\u00a0Ireland\u2019s\u00a0Sound and Vision scheme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9515\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9515','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8618-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"18PitchPutt.mp3\">Download<\/a> (13.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This Sporting Life: The Story of Minority Sport in North Dublin This Sporting Life\u00a0is an upbeat and lively series of short documentaries which capture the excitement and dedication of minority sports people and encourages others to join in. Each programme serves as an introduction to a different minority sport\u00a0practiced\u00a0in\u00a0Northside\u00a0Dublin. 18. Pitch &amp; Putt Portmarnock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9516\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9516','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8618-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/18PitchPutt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"18PitchPutt.mp3\">Download<\/a> (13.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,80],"tags":[1065,2070,2464,3058],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-this-sporting-life","tag-edd-kealy","tag-minority-sport","tag-portmarnock-golf-links-portmarnock-pitch-and-putt-club","tag-this-sporting-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}