{"id":269650,"date":"2026-01-06T04:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269650\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:43:08","slug":"martin-oneill-back-as-celtic-manager-after-wilfried-nancy-sacked-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269650\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O\u2019Neill back as Celtic manager after Wilfried Nancy sacked \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/martin-o-neill\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/martin-o-neill\/\">Martin O\u2019Neill<\/a> has returned to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/celtic\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/celtic\/\">Celtic<\/a> for the rest of the season after Wilfried Nancy was sacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Celtic moved quickly to take the former Republic of Ireland manager back after his successful interim spell before Nancy\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">O\u2019Neill and Nancy both had eight games in charge and contrasting fortunes. The 73-year-old won seven matches, while Nancy lost six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The former Republic of Ireland boss said on Celtic\u2019s website: \u201cI am really pleased, in fact, very honoured to be asked back to manage the team again and I am looking forward to getting back to work again with the players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI know we would all have hoped for things to have worked out differently under Wilfried and I personally want to wish him good luck with everything he does in the game. He is a fine man and I am sure he will go on and achieve success again, I have no doubt of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cFor me, I\u2019ve been asked to take this great job on again and my focus will be to try and get us back to winning ways if we can. We will need everyone right behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier, Celtic announced the departure of Nancy and head of football operations Paul Tidsdale in the wake of Saturday\u2019s 3-1 home defeat by Rangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The club announced they had \u201cdecided to terminate the contract of manager Wilfried Nancy with immediate effect\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A statement added: \u201cThe club thanks Wilfried for his efforts and wishes him and his family well for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWilfried\u2019s assistants, Kwame Ampadu, Jules Gueguen, and Maxime Chalier, will also be leaving the club and they take with them our good wishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe club can also confirm that Paul Tisdale has left his position as head of football operations. We thank Paul for the contribution he has made in that role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin O\u2019Neill has returned to lead Celtic for the rest of the season after Wilfried Nancy was sacked.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[20992,18,19,17,87513,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-269650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-celtic","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-martin-o-neill","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115846329547594156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269650","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=269650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}