{"id":130273,"date":"2025-10-18T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/130273\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:06:18","slug":"the-helicopter-is-the-bit-im-most-nervous-about-stephen-bradley-preparing-for-unique-dublin-marathon-and-derry-double-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/130273\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The helicopter is the bit I\u2019m most nervous about\u2019 \u2013 Stephen Bradley preparing for unique Dublin Marathon and Derry double header"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graham Burke of Shamrock Rovers with sporting director Stephen McPhail, right, and manager Stephen Bradley after Pat's defeat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3262716.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)\">Graham Burke of Shamrock Rovers with sporting director Stephen McPhail, right, and manager Stephen Bradley after Pat&#8217;s defeat<\/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)\">For Stephen Bradley, the frustration of an anticlimactic final stretch of what will be a title winning season for Shamrock Rovers is of minor significance compared to two bigger journeys that are being completed around it.<\/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 the aftermath of the defeat to St Patrick\u2019s Athletic that will delay the official Hoops coronation for at least another week, Bradley hailed the remarkable story of Roberto Lopes who missed the match after a whirlwind five days where he qualified for the World Cup with Cape Verde and then flew to Dublin for the birth of his first child Diego yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham Burke of Shamrock Rovers with sporting director Stephen McPhail, right, and manager Stephen Bradley after Pat&#8217;s defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-130273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130273","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=130273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}