{"id":16301,"date":"2017-05-28T22:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=16301"},"modified":"2017-05-28T22:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:09:28","slug":"st-ninians-high-school-fly-the-flag-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/st-ninians-high-school-fly-the-flag-for-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"St Ninian&#8217;s High School Fly the Flag for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Ninian\u2019s High School set off to Swansea in the early hours of this morning as they gear up for the start of the Allen McKinstry Cup which kicks off this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The three day event will see St Ninian\u2019s compete in this tournament for the very first time. The Scottish Schools\u2019 representatives take on two qualifiers from the Republic of Ireland and Wales while they hope the results go their way for the positional play-offs on Sunday morning as Swansea University host the event for the first time in the competition\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>We wish the boys all the very best of luck for this competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Squad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joe Adair, Josh Adair, Owen Adam, Matthew Connolly, Andrew Duncan, Dominic Goodwin, Sam Lawson, Odhran Markey, Michael McCabe, Ronan Miller, Andrew Park,\u00a0Michael Ruth, Shea Scally, Christopher Smith, Daniel Smith, Matthew Tunn<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staff <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark McKean, Mark Gallagher, Joe Harkins (also Scottish Schools\u2019 President)<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIST OF PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>St Ninian\u2019s High School, Giffnock (Scotland)<br \/>\nOur Lady and St Patrick\u2019s College, Knock (Northern Ireland)<br \/>\nThomas Telford School (England)<br \/>\nCastell Alun High School, Flintshire (Wales A)<br \/>\nSt Brendan\u2019s College, Killarney (Republic of Ireland)<br \/>\nOlchfa Comprehensive School, Swansea (Wales B)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixtures | <\/strong><strong>Swansea University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 19, 2017, KO 5.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Castell Alun HS vs OLSPCK<br \/>\nSt. Brendan\u2019s College vs Thomas Telford School<br \/>\nSt. Ninian\u2019s HS, Glasgow vs Olchfa Comprehensive<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 20, KO 10.30am<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Telford School vs Castell Alun HS<br \/>\nOlchfa Comprehensive vs OLSPCK<br \/>\nSt. Ninian\u2019s HS, Glasgow vs St. Brendan\u2019s College, Killarney<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, May 21, KO 10.30am<\/p>\n<p>Positional Play-Offs<\/p>\n<p>3 vs 4<br \/>\n5vs 6<\/p>\n<p>Final<\/p>\n<p>1 vs 2 (KO 10.45am)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the boys who won the Allen McKinstry Cup!!! We are very proud of them!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16364\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/files\/2017\/05\/Allen-McKinstry-Cup-Winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks\u00a0to parents and friends who made the journey to support the boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Ninian\u2019s High School set off to Swansea in the early hours of this morning as they gear up for the start of the Allen McKinstry Cup which kicks off this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/st-ninians-high-school-fly-the-flag-for-scotland\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions\/16365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}