{"id":188677,"date":"2025-11-19T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:04:12","slug":"its-important-everybody-makes-their-own-decisions-ireland-boss-carla-ward-defends-players-over-poppy-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188677\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s important everybody makes their own decisions\u2019 \u2013 Ireland boss Carla Ward defends players over poppy stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carla Ward speaks to the media during her Ireland squad announcement in Abbotstown yesterday. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1a9b73e-2a62-459c-b1bc-7ff11b0d140c.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)\">Carla Ward speaks to the media during her Ireland squad announcement in Abbotstown yesterday. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">Carla Ward has defended the Irish players who chose not to wear the poppy during recent club duties.<\/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)\">Katie McCabe, Caitlin Hayes, Abbie Larkin and Hayley Nolan chose not to do so but Ireland captain McCabe, like James McClean before her, was on the receiving end of some virulent abuse on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carla Ward speaks to the media during her Ireland squad announcement in Abbotstown yesterday. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile Carla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[105672,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-188677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-david-kelly","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115575565243243824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188677","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=188677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}