{"id":116429,"date":"2025-10-12T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116429\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:11:09","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-irelands-world-cup-campaign-is-replaying-the-greatest-hits-album-of-deflating-disappointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116429\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Ireland\u2019s World Cup campaign is replaying the greatest hits album of deflating disappointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland goalkeeper Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher and Ireland's Nathan Collins (right) look dejected with team-mates following defeat in the World Cup qualifying match at the Jose Alvalade Stadium, Lisbon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fc923110-1426-4736-bb02-e42c2927fc31.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland goalkeeper Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher and Ireland&#8217;s Nathan Collins (right) look dejected with team-mates following defeat in the World Cup qualifying match at the Jose Alvalade Stadium, Lisbon<\/p>\n<p>Daniel McDonnell in Lisbon<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 23:38<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The feeling of desolation was all too familiar. Ireland\u2019s World Cup campaign is replaying the greatest hits album of deflating disappointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We\u2019ve already had the mixed emotions of a come from behind draw and a humbling at the hands of a minnow. In Lisbon, Heimir Hallgrimsson moved onto the valiant defeat to a superpower, the agony fuelled by a sense of injustice inspired by decisions that appeared to favour the bigger fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland goalkeeper Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher and Ireland&#8217;s Nathan Collins (right) look dejected with team-mates following defeat in the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2721,18,18142,17065,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-116429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-fai","11":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}