{"id":3641,"date":"2026-10-05T01:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:50:54","slug":"molly-pittendrigh-wins-at-the-2026-all-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2026\/10\/05\/molly-pittendrigh-wins-at-the-2026-all-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Pittendrigh wins at the 2026 All Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our heartiest congratulations fly to the very talented Molly Pittendrigh of County Mayo!<\/strong><br><br>Molly won the seniors (Over 18) flute, whistle, and flute slow air competitions at the Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann 2026 in Belfast a few weeks ago. Molly plays a Martin Doyle flute and we are very proud of her accomplishments. An extraordinary effort goes into becoming a champion and that also includes a great commitment of support from family and friends. Our congratulations extend to Molly&#8217;s younger sister Hannah who also competed in Belfast and won awards in the 15-18 age group for whistle and whistle slow air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin Doyle&#8217;s flutes have done well in the hands of multiple young player throughout 2026.<br><strong>More information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/fleadh-cheoil-results.html#2026\">here \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Molly_2026_Winner-lrg.jpg\" alt=\"Molly Pittendrigh Belfast 2026\" class=\"wp-image-3646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Molly_2026_Winner-lrg.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Molly_2026_Winner-lrg-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Molly Pittendrigh Belfast 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a video clip of Molly playing at Corofin in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Molly Pittendrigh Corofin 2025\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GG-FNqRunp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our heartiest congratulations fly to the very talented Molly Pittendrigh of County Mayo! Molly won the seniors (Over 18) flute, whistle, and flute slow air competitions at the Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,57,86,4,5,742],"tags":[754,722,776,777,665,23,718,146,210,145],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-festivals","category-flute-players","category-irish-traditional-music","category-martin-doyle-flutes","category-video-clip","tag-754","tag-all-ireland-2","tag-competition","tag-fleadh-cheoil","tag-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann","tag-flute","tag-molly-pittendrigh","tag-player","tag-video","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}