{"id":8648,"date":"2013-05-02T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T08:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T08:51:48","slug":"this-sporting-life-ep-24-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8648","title":{"rendered":"This Sporting Life Ep 24 \u2013 Hockey"},"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>24. Hockey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 2012 was when the Irish media and public really\u00a0discovered\u00a0hockey when both the Irish men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams got to within one win of qualifying for the 2012 London Olympic Games.\u00a012 months on from those agonising near misses Near FM&#8217;s Niamh Griffin went along to Clontarf Hockey Club to see if all that attention had helped the profile of the game of hockey in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Niamh spoke to members of Clontarf Hockey Club including Amy Anslow and Walter McConnell.\u00a0Produced by Niamh Griffin.<\/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_3572\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/24Hockey.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3572','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/24Hockey.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\/24Hockey.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8648-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/24Hockey.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"24Hockey.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. 24. Hockey March 2012 was when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3573\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/24Hockey.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3573','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/24Hockey.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\/24Hockey.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8648-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/24Hockey.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"24Hockey.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":[664,1612,2070,2184,3058],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-this-sporting-life","tag-clontarf-hockey-club","tag-irish-hockey","tag-minority-sport","tag-niamh-griffin","tag-this-sporting-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648","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=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/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=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}