{"id":295,"date":"2011-12-29T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-12-29T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:56:13","slug":"st-stephens-day-swim-and-duck-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/st-stephens-day-swim-and-duck-race\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Stephens day swim and duck race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/download.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[295]\" title=\"download\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-326\" title=\"download\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/download-e1325177326280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/download-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[295]\" title=\"download (1)\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-324\" title=\"download (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/download-1-e1325177220740.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>On St. Stephens\u2019 day the annual swim took place on the banks of the River Suir in Holycross.\u00a0 This year marked the 25<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the swim that is\u00a0a very important fundraiser for Holycross National School.\u00a0 The occasion was marked in grand style.\u00a0 Mulled wine was enjoyed by all on the day.\u00a0 At 3 p.m. the 13 brave and hardy swimmers dived in. \u00a0The group were led by school Principal Ger Corbett. \u00a0The swim was quickly followed by the Duck Race.\u00a0 The swimmers were delighted with the support of all the locals on the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1951.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[295]\" title=\"DSCF1951\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-300\" title=\"DSCF1951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1951-e1324918630133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1945.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[295]\" title=\"DSCF1945\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-298\" title=\"DSCF1945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1945-e1324918207523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1941-e1324917855836.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[295]\" title=\"DSCF1941\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" title=\"DSCF1941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1941-e1324917855836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On St. Stephens\u2019 day the annual swim took place on the banks of the River Suir in Holycross.\u00a0 This year marked the 25th Anniversary of the swim that is\u00a0a very important fundraiser for Holycross National School.\u00a0 The occasion was marked&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}