{"id":8621,"date":"2013-04-30T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:23:18","slug":"this-sporting-life-ep-19-weight-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8621","title":{"rendered":"This Sporting Life Ep 19 \u2013 Weight Lifting"},"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><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><strong>19. Weight Lifting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hercules Gym is one of Ireland\u2019s oldest weightlifting and fitness clubs in the country and was founded way back in 1935. Now located on Lurgan Street the club caters for many disciplines including bodybuilding, power-lifting and even wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to Jim Jennings a long-time member of the club and secretary of the Weightlifting Association of Ireland to find out about the clubs history and about the sport of weightlifting. Members of the club told us how they had gotten involved in the sport and what they love about weightlifting. We were also present as Bill Healy a long time veteran of the club attempted to break a world record!<\/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>&nbsp;<\/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_7099\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/19WeightLifting.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7099','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/19WeightLifting.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\/19WeightLifting.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8621-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/19WeightLifting.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19WeightLifting.mp3\">Download<\/a> (0.0KB)<\/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>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. 19. Weight Lifting Hercules Gym is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7100\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/19WeightLifting.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7100','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/19WeightLifting.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\/19WeightLifting.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8621-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/19WeightLifting.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19WeightLifting.mp3\">Download<\/a> (0.0KB)<\/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":[1065,1467,2070,3058,3228,3229],"class_list":["post-8621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-this-sporting-life","tag-edd-kealy","tag-hercules-gym","tag-minority-sport","tag-this-sporting-life","tag-weight-lifting","tag-weightlifting-association-of-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621","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=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/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=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}