{"id":186797,"date":"2025-11-18T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186797\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:45:12","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-with-budapest-boys-hailing-from-nine-counties-ireland-squad-truly-represents-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186797\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: With Budapest boys hailing from nine counties, Ireland squad truly represents the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ireland team, back row, from left to right, Troy Parrott, Nathan Collins, Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher, Liam Scales, Dara O'Shea, Finn Azaz and Jake O'Brien; front row, from left to right, Josh Cullen, S\u00e9amus Coleman, Chiedozie Ogbene and Jayson Molumby; before their World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier against Hungary at Puskas Arena in Budapest. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10423c7f-d05b-41cd-9c82-579561d557ad.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)\">The Ireland team, back row, from left to right, Troy Parrott, Nathan Collins, Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher, Liam Scales, Dara O&#8217;Shea, Finn Azaz and Jake O&#8217;Brien; front row, from left to right, Josh Cullen, S\u00e9amus Coleman, Chiedozie Ogbene and Jayson Molumby; before their World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier against Hungary at Puskas Arena in Budapest. 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)\">Talk about striking the right tone. Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s delivery of his thoughts after the memorable mayhem in the Puskas Arena hit on so many points that it made sense when he admitted that he had prepared them beforehand in case of victory.<\/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)\">After speaking about the need for his players to remember who stuck by them in the difficult times and expanding on his own attitude towards the fickle nature of outside noise, Hallgrimsson spoke about the wider importance of Troy Parrott\u2019s moment for Irish football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ireland team, back row, from left to right, Troy Parrott, Nathan Collins, Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher, Liam Scales, Dara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2721,18,18142,17065,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-186797","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-fai","11":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115569827975558825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186797","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=186797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}