{"id":194038,"date":"2025-11-22T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:22:15","slug":"how-liam-scales-found-balance-ireland-defender-created-winning-moment-in-hungary-after-a-road-less-travelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194038\/","title":{"rendered":"How Liam Scales found balance: Ireland defender created winning \u2018moment\u2019 in Hungary after a road less travelled"},"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\">\nWicklow man\u2019s path from UCD to Celtic saw many setbacks they did not hold back Ireland&#8217;s quiet man\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liam Scales was part of 'the moment' in Ireland's Hungary win having taken the path less travelled to international football\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0240012c-7acc-43c8-8eb2-1785f2506c65.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)\">Liam Scales was part of &#8216;the moment&#8217; in Ireland&#8217;s Hungary win having taken the path less travelled to international football<\/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)\">Is \u00e9 an b\u00f3thar is faide amach an b\u00f3thar is giorra isteach<\/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)\">The moment, as everyone now calls it, has been labelled a miraculous one. But was it really simply an answer to anguished prayer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wicklow man\u2019s path from UCD to Celtic saw many setbacks they did not hold back Ireland&#8217;s quiet man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[105672,18,19,17,132],"class_list":["post-194038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-david-kelly","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115592387304637614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194038","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=194038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}