{"id":185565,"date":"2025-11-17T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/185565\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:31:10","slug":"dublin-zoo-name-bird-after-republic-of-irelands-hat-trick-hero-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/185565\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Zoo name bird after Republic of Ireland\u2019s hat-trick hero \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sky is the limit for Dubliner Troy Parrott<\/a> who netted a hat-trick to put the Republic of Ireland team<\/a> into a World Cup playoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The same can be said for another Troy, a male citron-crested cockatoo, a critically endangered parrot species at Dublin Zoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before now the parrot did not have a fitting name. On Monday, Dublin Zoo decided that they would name him in honour of the \u201chat-trick hero\u201d Troy Parrott.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are very few moments that leave the people of a nation speechless but that\u2019s exactly what Troy Parrott\u2019s third goal did yesterday … We just want to honour Ireland\u2019s hat-trick hero \u2013 a Dublin native born and bred \u2013 in a way that only Dublin Zoo can,\u201d said Diana Farrell, a zookeeper at Dublin Zoo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d be delighted to welcome him to Dublin Zoo to chat football with us keepers and of course to meet his namesake, who\u2019s more of a winger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TroyTroy Parrott of Ireland scores his second goal during the FIFA 2026 World Cup Qualifiers match at Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, on November 16, 2025. Photograph: Robert Szaniszlo\/NurPhoto via Getty Images <\/p>\n

[\u00a0World Cup playoffs: Who are Ireland\u2019s potential opponents and when is the draw?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Dublin Zoo is offering a 50 per cent discount to any Republic of Ireland fans who wear green this weekend (November 22nd and 23rd).<\/p>\n

The Boys in Green are in with a chance to head to the World Cup in North America next summer, another feather to add to Troy Parrott\u2019s cap.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Kevin Kilbane: Hallgr\u00edmsson can play both Parrott and Ferguson. He\u2019ll soon figure out howOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sky is the limit for Dubliner Troy Parrott who netted a hat-trick to put the Republic of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,96008,18,13,14,21278,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,6634,7,8,29833],"class_list":{"0":"post-185565","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-dublin-zoo","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-football-association-of-ireland-fai","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-troy-parrott"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115565998356871339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185565","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=185565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}