{"id":142679,"date":"2025-10-24T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142679\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:09:10","slug":"us-based-backers-of-dundalk-say-they-will-walk-away-from-crisis-club-unless-owner-john-temple-hands-over-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142679\/","title":{"rendered":"US-based backers of Dundalk say they will walk away from crisis club unless owner John Temple hands over control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dundalk owner John Temple.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SN John Temple.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)\">Dundalk owner John Temple.<\/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)\">As supporters face an anxious wait to see if their team will be awarded a licence to play in the Premier Division for next season, which is a major doubt, there is fresh turmoil for Dundalk FC as the minority group of USA-based shareholders in the club have told majority shareholder John Temple to hand over his stake in the club or they will \u201ctake all steps we consider necessary to protect Dundalk FC\u2019s interests\u201d which could see them walk away.<\/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)\">Dundalk had a good season on the field this season as Ciaran Kilduff\u2019s side romped to a title win in Division One. That should mean automatic promotion to the top flight but there are serious concerns in the town around the club\u2019s ability to meet demands for a Premier Division club licence, particularly the floodlights and the pitch at Oriel Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundalk owner John Temple. As supporters face an anxious wait to see if their team will be awarded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2722,84512,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-142679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-dundalk-fc","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115429072195930954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142679","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=142679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}