{"id":173609,"date":"2025-11-10T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/173609\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:00:11","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-cup-triumph-reflects-tale-of-perfect-year-as-relentless-shamrock-rovers-take-their-place-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/173609\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Cup triumph reflects tale of perfect year as relentless Shamrock Rovers take their place in history"},"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\">Extraordinary campaigns have become the norm for Stephen Bradley\u2019s men\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley, assistant coach Glenn Cronin and sporting director Stephen McPhail on the Aviva Stadium pitch with the FAI Cup trophy. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2e1b030-1db6-4e06-ab82-89076ecb1431.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)\">Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley, assistant coach Glenn Cronin and sporting director Stephen McPhail on the Aviva Stadium pitch with the FAI Cup trophy. 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)\">If ever a celebration was deserved.<\/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)\">Stephen Bradley smiled as he conceded that he had put a leash on his league-winning players after last Saturday\u2019s trophy presentation in Tallaght. They had work to do in Athens and the Aviva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Extraordinary campaigns have become the norm for Stephen Bradley\u2019s men Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley, assistant coach Glenn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,2721,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,13537,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-173609","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-daniel-mcdonnell","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-shamrock-rovers","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115526948046393683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173609","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=173609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}