{"id":482,"date":"2025-12-30T23:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/?p=482"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:05:44","slug":"turning-the-sod-for-the-liam-mellows-clubhouse-at-ballyloughane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/turning-the-sod-for-the-liam-mellows-clubhouse-at-ballyloughane\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Sod for the Liam Mellows Clubhouse at Ballyloughane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mellows-clubhouse-1024x659.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mellows-clubhouse-1024x659.png 1024w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mellows-clubhouse-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mellows-clubhouse-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mellows-clubhouse-1536x989.png 1536w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mellows-clubhouse-1200x773.png 1200w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mellows-clubhouse.png 1808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Turning the Sod for the Liam Mellows Clubhouse at Ballyloughane. The land<\/em> <em>was purchased for \u00a325,000 in 1974. From the left: Michael Ryan, Joe<\/em> <em>Flaherty, Dermott McSweeney, Michael O\u2019Brien, Niall Elwood, Bobby Molloy<\/em> <em>Hegarty. TD turning the sod, Paddy Madden, Sean Duggan, Jimmy Duggan, Jimmy<\/em> Hegarty. <em>Photo courtesy of Moria Elwood<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[158,48,90],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galway-photos","tag-ballyloughane","tag-hurling","tag-liam-mellows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}