{"id":118929,"date":"2025-10-13T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:58:09","slug":"aidan-fitzmaurice-well-behaved-irish-fans-deserve-better-than-heavy-handed-robocop-treatment-they-got-in-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118929\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Fitzmaurice: Well-behaved Irish fans deserve better than heavy-handed \u2018RoboCop\u2019 treatment they got in Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland fans were impeccably behaved in Lisbon but the treatment they endured from local security left a lot to be desired. Photo Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3257551.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 fans were impeccably behaved in Lisbon but the treatment they endured from local security left a lot to be desired. Photo Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Even a child at senior infants\u2019 level soon learns the life lesson that two wrongs don\u2019t make a right.<\/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)\">So it would be unfair, childish even, for this country to change habits when Portugal supporters visit Dublin for next month\u2019s qualifier \u2013 a game that could be irrelevant if Portugal do the needful tomorrow and have qualification sewn up with two games to spare \u2013 and for Ireland Inc to take away the welcome mat, withdraw the hand of friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland fans were impeccably behaved in Lisbon but the treatment they endured from local security left a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2722,18,18142,17065,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-118929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","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\/118929","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=118929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}