{"id":125631,"date":"2025-10-16T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125631\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:44:09","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-heimir-may-not-be-cause-of-irish-crisis-but-theres-no-evidence-hes-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125631\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Heimir may not be cause of Irish crisis but there\u2019s no evidence he\u2019s the solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Anger is futile amid clear sense another Ireland regime is nearing end of the road\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson after his side's victory in the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier against Armenia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3260711.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 head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson after his side&#8217;s victory in the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier against Armenia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">In a different place and time, there might have been cause to pore over Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s post-match comments on Tuesday evening and get animated about the inconsistencies.<\/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 Icelander has been praised for his communication skills and clarity of delivery as Ireland manager but he is now beginning to say things that don\u2019t really stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anger is futile amid clear sense another Ireland regime is nearing end of the road Ireland head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2721,18,17065,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-125631","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-heimir-hallgrimsson","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125631","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=125631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}