{"id":760,"date":"2011-08-30T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=760"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:26:40","slug":"irishmans-success-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/irishmans-success-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"IRISHMAN&#8217;S SUCCESS IN GERMANY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"4\">The <em><strong>Nationalist<\/strong><\/em> 16 July 1966<br \/>Irishman&rsquo;s success in Germany<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">An Athgarvan, Co. Kildare, man is making quite a name for himself in soccer circles among the American forces in west Germany. He is 21 year-old Mr. Michael Byrne, who was drafted into the American army in 1963 and is now serving in West Germany. A local newspaper says, &ldquo;Its probably just luck &ndash; the luck of the Irish.&rdquo;<br \/>&ldquo;This is the way Irish Mike Byrne, from the 24th Division Lion soccer team explains his sudden emergence as one of the most feared scorers in the German Class A Reserve League, which provided the Taromen with much of their competition.&rdquo;<br \/>And his coach describes Mike as &ldquo;just one of those guys who always happens to be in the right place at the right time.&rdquo; So successful has he been in the Forces that he says his principal aim on going back to the U.S. is to attend Notre Dame University &ndash; on a soccer scholarship.<br \/>Mr. Byrne is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Byrne, Athgarvan, Newbridge. When in Ireland, he was also a successful Gaelic footballer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em><strong>An article from the Nationalist of 15 July 1966 on Michael Byrne&#8217;s soccer success in West Germany<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><em><strong>An article from the Nationalist of 15 July 1966 on Michael Byrne&#8217;s soccer success in West Germany<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}