{"id":7108,"date":"2012-06-07T03:07:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2012-06-07T03:07:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T03:07:40","slug":"olympic-flame-travels-to-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7108","title":{"rendered":"Olympic flame travels to Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/others\/london_olympics-2012.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Olympic Flame\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Dublin: <\/strong>Some 41 runners will carry the Olympic Flame here Wednesday for the torch&#8217;s only excursion outside Britain ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will include a cross-border ceremony, a civic event in Howth, a run on the Skyline roof at Croke Park and a relay around Dublin city centre. <\/p>\n<p>The visit of the Flame to Ireland is symbolic of the success of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, and of the all-island make-up of the Irish team for the London 2012 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>The event starts just outside Newry in Northern Ireland. A short ceremony will take place at the border involving former Olympic boxers Wayne McCullough and Michael Carruth along with children from schools in Newry and Dundalk.<\/p>\n<p>The Flame will then be driven to Howth in County Dublin where it will be greeted by Ireland&#8217;s President Michael Higgins in a ceremony outside the offices of the Olympic Council in Howth. <\/p>\n<p>President Higgins will be joined in Howth by hundreds of school children from the area, representatives of local civic and sporting organisations, and British Ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott.<\/p>\n<p>The final torchbearer, former Olympic 5,000-metre runner and chef de mission for the Irish 2012 Olympic team Sonia O&#8217;Sullivan, will light an Olympic cauldron on the Green&#8217;s Bandstand to commemorate the event. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/others\/london_olympics-2012.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Olympic Flame\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Dublin: <\/strong>Some 41 runners will carry the Olympic Flame here Wednesday for the torch&#8217;s only excursion outside Britain ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will include a cross-border ceremony, a civic event in Howth, a run on the Skyline roof at Croke Park and a relay around Dublin city centre. <\/p>\n<p>The visit of the Flame to Ireland is symbolic of the success of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, and of the all-island make-up of the Irish team for the London 2012 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[1434,4479],"class_list":["post-7108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-olympics","tag-london-2012-olympic-games","tag-olympic-flame"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Olympic flame travels to Dublin - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7108\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Olympic flame travels to Dublin - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dublin: Some 41 runners will carry the Olympic Flame here Wednesday for the torch&#039;s only excursion outside Britain ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.The ceremony will include a cross-border ceremony, a civic event in Howth, a run on the Skyline roof at Croke Park and a relay around Dublin city centre. 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